Hidden inside map sit amp, map, and pam, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amp, map, and pam tie for the highest Scrabble score from map at 7 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in map: two come from rearranging its letters, and map itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with map. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in map. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and pa — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in map and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
map 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for map. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
map is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing map unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amp, map, and pam, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from map 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 map produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.