Hidden inside mastery sit mastery and streamy, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mastery and streamy tie for the highest Scrabble score from mastery at 12 points. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mastery: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mastery 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 mastery and streamy, 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 mastery turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master. For points, the strongest plays are mateys, mayest, smarty, smeary, and steamy — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mastery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, rates, smart, stare, steam, and teams. For points, the strongest plays are etyma, matey, mayst, meaty, samey, seamy, and tryma — 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 mastery produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, army, arts, ears, east, easy, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are army, mays, and yams — 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 mastery turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, aye, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are may and yam — 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 mastery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in mastery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mastery 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.
mastery 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 mastery carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for mastery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mastery is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mastery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mastery and streamy, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mastery 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 mastery produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.