Hidden inside marriages sit gramaries and marriages, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gramaries and marriages tie for the highest Scrabble score from marriages at 12 points. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in marriages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marriages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marriages. For points, the strongest plays are gramaries and marriages — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marriages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marriage. For points, the strongest plays are armigers and marriage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in marriages produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marries. For points, the strongest plays are armiger, gisarme, imagers, and mirages — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling marriages turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies and images. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, amigas, gamers, gamier, gramas, grimes, imager, images, maigre, marges, megara, and mirage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marriages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, games, germs, image, rages, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are agism, agmas, amiga, gamas, gamer, games, germs, grama, grams, grime, image, mages, marge, margs, regma, and sigma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in marriages produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, area, arms, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are agma, gama, game, gams, gems, germ, gram, grim, mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, and migs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling marriages turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marriages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in marriages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marriages and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
marriages 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 four senses for marriages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
marriages is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marriages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gramaries and marriages, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marriages 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 marriages produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.