Hidden inside marques sit marques and masquer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marques and masquer tie for the highest Scrabble score from marques at 18 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in marques: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marques itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are marques and masquer, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marques. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse. For points, the strongest play is quare — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marques produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears and eras. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including arms, rums and same.
Unscrambling marques turns up 31 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 marques. 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.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in marques plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marques 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.
marques 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 one sense for marques. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
marques is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marques unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marques and masquer, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marques 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 marques produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.