Hidden inside mapless sit mapless and samples, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mapless and samples tie for the highest Scrabble score from mapless at 11 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mapless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mapless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with samples. For points, the strongest plays are mapless and samples — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mapless turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maples and sample. For points, the strongest plays are maples, plasms, psalms, and sample — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mapless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamps, leaps and males. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including lamps, maple and ample.
Rearranging the letters in mapless produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, lame and lamp. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including lamp, maps and amps.
Unscrambling mapless turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass and lap. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mapless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mapless plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mapless 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.
mapless is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
mapless is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mapless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mapless and samples, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mapless 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 mapless produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.