Hidden inside mantrap sit mantrap and rampant, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mantrap and rampant tie for the highest Scrabble score from mantrap at 11 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mantrap: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mantrap itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mantrap and rampant, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantrap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart. For points, the strongest plays are praam and tramp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mantrap produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, ramp, and trap. For points, the strongest plays are pram, ramp, and tamp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mantrap turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, arm and art. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mantrap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and pa — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mantrap plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mantrap and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
mantrap is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for mantrap. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mantrap is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mantrap unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mantrap and rampant, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mantrap 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 mantrap produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.