masthead needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
masthead is the highest-scoring word from masthead, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in masthead — and it is masthead itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in masthead produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ashamed, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling masthead turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaths. For points, the strongest plays are emdash, mashed, and shamed — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masthead. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahead, dates, death, hated, hates, heads, and heats. For points, the strongest plays are amahs, haems, hames, maths, meths, and shame — 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 masthead produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, data, date, east, eats, hams, and hate. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, amah, haem, hame, hams, hems, mash, math, mesh, meth, sham, and them — 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 masthead turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, ads, aha, ash, ate, eat, and had. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masthead. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, am, as, at, eh, and ha. 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 masthead and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
masthead 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 masthead carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for masthead. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
masthead is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing masthead unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is masthead, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from masthead 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 masthead produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.