Hidden inside martial sit marital and martial, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marital and martial tie for the highest Scrabble score from martial at 9 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in martial: one comes from rearranging its letters, and martial 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 marital and martial, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling martial turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amrita, mitral, ramtil, and tamari, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, altar, trail, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are alarm, amrit, lamia, malar, maria, ramal, and tamal — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in martial produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liar, mail, tail, and trim. For points, the strongest plays are alma, amia, amir, atma, lama, lima, maar, mail, mair, malt, mara, marl, mart, milt, rami, tram, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling martial turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, arm, art, lit, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, arm, lam, mar, mat, mil, mir, ram, rim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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.
Swap a single tile in martial 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.
martial 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 martial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
martial is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing martial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marital and martial, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from martial 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 martial produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.