Hidden inside masonries sit masonries and romanises, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 513 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
masonries and romanises tie for the highest Scrabble score from masonries at 11 points. The top 10 of 513 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in masonries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and masonries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are masonries and romanises, 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 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masonries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seminars. For points, the strongest plays are anemosis, moraines, romaines, romanise, and seminars — 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 masonries produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reasons, remains, seminar, and seniors. For points, the strongest plays are airsome, anomies, enamors, eonisms, inseams, isomers, marines, massier, merinos, moaners, moraine, mossier, oarsmen, ramsons, ransoms, remains, romaine, samisen, seminar, sermons, and seromas — 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 masonries turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, noises, raises, reason, remain, season, and senior. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, airmen, amines, aminos, amnios, animes, anomie, armies, enamor, eonism, inarms, inseam, isomer, manors, manses, marine, marses, masers, masons, mensas, merino, mesian, mesons, messan, miners, minors, mioses, misers, moaner, moires, monies, morass, mosser, namers, ramens, ramies, ramins, ramose, ramson, ransom, remain, remans, remiss, rimose, romans, samier, semina, sermon, seroma, simars, smears, and somans — 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 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masonries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, irons, means, minor, names, noise, and noses. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amens, amies, amine, amino, amins, amirs, amiss, amnio, anime, emirs, enorm, inarm, mains, mairs, manes, manis, manor, manos, manse, mares, marse, maser, mases, mason, masse, means, mensa, mesas, meson, miens, minae, minas, miner, mines, minor, mires, miser, mises, misos, moans, moira, moire, monas, monie, morae, moras, mores, morns, morse, namer, names, nemas, nomas, nomes, norms, omens, omers, ramen, ramie, ramin, reams, reman, rimes, roams, roman, seams, seism, semis, simar, simas, smear, soman, and somas — 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 masonries produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, arms, main, mass, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amen, amie, amin, amir, amis, arms, maes, main, mair, mane, mani, mano, mans, mare, mars, mass, mean, meno, mesa, mess, mien, mina, mine, mire, mirs, mise, miso, miss, moan, moas, mons, mora, more, morn, mors, moss, name, nema, nims, noma, nome, noms, norm, omas, omen, omer, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, roam, roms, same, seam, semi, sima, sims, soma, some, soms, emir, emos, and isms — 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 masonries turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ass, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, emo, ems, ism, mae, man, mar, mas, men, mes, mir, mis, moa, moi, mon, mor, mos, nam, nim, nom, oma, oms, ram, rem, rim, rom, sim, and som — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masonries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, me, and no. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in masonries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in masonries and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
masonries 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 three senses for masonries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
masonries is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing masonries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are masonries and romanises, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from masonries 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 masonries produce 513 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.