martingale needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 769 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
martingale is the highest-scoring word from martingale, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 769 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in martingale — and it is martingale itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling martingale turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are marginate, martingal, metralgia, and trameling, 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 32 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martingale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarming, altering, material, relating, and triangle. For points, the strongest plays are agminate, alarming, emigrant, enigmata, gematria, germinal, ligament, maligner, malinger, marginal, metaling, remating, and tegminal — 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 martingale produces 85 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate, manager, manlier, melting, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are gamelan, gametal, garment, gateman, geminal, germina, gremial, gremlin, magenta, magnate, malting, manager, mangier, mangler, margate, margent, marling, marting, melting, metring, migrant, migrate, mingler, mintage, nametag, ragtime, reaming, regmata, tangram, teaming, tegmina, terming, and trangam — 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 martingale turns up 148 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal, eating, magnet, manage, mental, mingle, and rating. For points, the strongest plays are agleam, arming, engram, enigma, gamier, gamine, german, gimlet, imager, laming, legman, lingam, magian, magnet, maigre, malgre, malign, manage, mangel, manger, mangle, margin, mating, megara, meting, milage, mingle, mirage, ragman, ragmen, and taming — 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 182 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martingale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent, alarm, alert, alien, altar, and alter. For points, the strongest plays are amiga, gamer, gamin, gimel, gleam, glime, grama, grime, image, manga, mange, marge, and regma — 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 martingale produces 189 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area, lame, lane, late, lean, and lent. For points, the strongest plays are agma, mage, magi, marg, mega, gama, game, germ, glam, glim, gram, and grim — 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 martingale turns up 99 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, ant, are, arm, and art. 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in martingale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in martingale plus one additional letter.
martingale 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 4-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 martingale. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
martingale is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing martingale unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is martingale, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from martingale 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 martingale produce 769 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 32 eight-letter words, 85 seven-letter words, 148 six-letter words, 182 five-letter words, 189 four-letter words, 99 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.