Hidden inside mastering sit emigrants, mastering, and streaming, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 854 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emigrants, mastering, and streaming tie for the highest Scrabble score from mastering at 12 points. The top 10 of 854 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in mastering: two come from rearranging its letters, and mastering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastering. For points, the strongest plays are emigrants, mastering, and streaming — 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 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest and steaming. For points, the strongest plays are emigrant, garments, magister, mangiest, margents, migrants, migrates, mintages, misagent, ragtimes, remating, smarting, smearing, steaming, and sterigma — 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 mastering produces 93 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, maestri, magnets, nastier, ratings, remains, and resting. For points, the strongest plays are armings, engrams, enigmas, gamiest, gamines, garment, germans, germina, gisarme, imagers, magnets, mangers, mangier, margent, margins, marting, masting, matings, metring, migrant, migrate, mintage, mirages, ragtime, reaming, seaming, sigmate, teaming, tegmina, and terming — 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 mastering turns up 161 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, armies, easing, eating, giants, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, arming, engram, enigma, gamers, gamest, gamier, gamine, gamins, gasmen, german, grimes, imager, images, magnet, maigre, manger, manges, marges, margin, mating, meting, mirage, ragmen, stigma, 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 221 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, earns, gains, games, gates, and germs. For points, the strongest plays are agism, gamer, games, gamin, germs, grams, grime, image, mages, mange, marge, margs, regma, and sigma — 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 mastering produces 214 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, amen, ants, arms, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, gems, germ, 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 mastering turns up 109 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
14 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in mastering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mastering 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.
mastering 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 3-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 mastering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mastering is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mastering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emigrants, mastering, and streaming, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mastering 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 mastering produce 854 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 93 seven-letter words, 161 six-letter words, 221 five-letter words, 214 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.