Hidden inside martians sit martians and tamarins, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
martians and tamarins tie for the highest Scrabble score from martians at 10 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in martians: one comes from rearranging its letters, and martians itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are martians and tamarins, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in martians produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amritas, mantras, marinas and 5 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling martians turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trains. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including airman, amrita and amrits.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints, rains and saint. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including mints, smart and trims.
Rearranging the letters in martians produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and ants. For points, 34 words tie at 6 points, including aims, arms and main.
Unscrambling martians turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and man.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in martians plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in martians 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.
martians 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 martians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
martians is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing martians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are martians and tamarins, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from martians 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 martians produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.