Hidden inside martian sit martian and tamarin, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
martian and tamarin tie for the highest Scrabble score from martian at 9 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in martian: one comes from rearranging its letters, and martian 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 martian and tamarin, 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 martian 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 airman, amrita, mantra, marina, martin, 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with train. For points, the strongest plays are amain, amnia, amrit, anima, atman, inarm, manat, mania, manta, maria, matin, and ramin — 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 martian produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with main, mint, rain, and trim. For points, the strongest plays are amia, amin, amir, atma, maar, main, mair, mana, mani, mara, mart, mina, mint, 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 martian turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ant, arm, art, man, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, arm, man, mar, mat, mir, nam, nim, 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 martian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, 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 martian 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.
martian 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 martian. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
martian is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing martian unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are martian and tamarin, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from martian 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 martian produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.