Hidden inside mashies sit mashies and messiah, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mashies and messiah tie for the highest Scrabble score from mashies at 12 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mashies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mashies 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 mashies and messiah, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mashies turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shames. For points, the strongest plays are mashes, mashie, and shames — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mashies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, shame, and smash. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, shame, shams, shims, and smash — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mashies produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, hams, mass, mess, miss, and same. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, hams, hems, hims, mash, mesh, sham, and shim — 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 mashies turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ash, ass, ham, has, him, and his. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, him, and meh — 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 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mashies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 mashies 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.
mashies 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in mashies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
mashies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mashies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mashies and messiah, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mashies 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 mashies produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.