marquees needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marquees is the highest-scoring word from marquees, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in marquees — and it is marquees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marquees produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with measure. For points, the strongest plays are marquee, marques, and masquer — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling marquees turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resume and square. For points, the strongest plays are marque and masque — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marquees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, erase, and queer. For points, the strongest plays are eques, quare, and queer — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marquees produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears and ease. For points, 22 words tie at 6 points, including arms, rums and same.
Unscrambling marquees turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, the strongest plays are qua and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marquees. 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 um.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in marquees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marquees and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
marquees 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 two senses for marquees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
marquees is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marquees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is marquees, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from marquees 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 marquees produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.