Hidden inside mantive sit maven, mavie, mavin and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maven, mavie, mavin and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from mantive at 10 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant and naive. For points, the strongest plays are maven, mavie, mavin, and vimen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mantive produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, item and main. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including vein, nave and nevi.
Unscrambling mantive turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in mantive plus one additional letter.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maven, mavie, mavin, and vimen, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mantive earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in mantive produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.