markets needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TREMASK, KAMRETS or SARMTEK and you get the same 7 letters as MARKETS: so the words from MARKETS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
markets is the highest-scoring word from markets, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in markets — and it is markets itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling markets turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with makers, market, and master. For points, the strongest plays are makers, market, and masker — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maker, makes and marks. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including maker, makes and marks.
Rearranging the letters in markets produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and ears. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including make, mark and mask.
Unscrambling markets turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in markets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in markets 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.
markets 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record nine senses for markets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
markets is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing markets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is markets, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from markets 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 markets produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 15 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.