Hidden inside manya is one standout: mayan, a five-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble AAMNY, AYMAN or AANYM and you get the same 5 letters as MANYA: so the words from MANYA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
MANYA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MAYAN (noun, plural of maya), the power to produce illusions, in Hindu philosophy, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
mayan is the highest-scoring word from manya, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling manya produces exactly one five-letter word: mayan. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in manya and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mayan, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from manya 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 manya produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.