Hidden inside matchmaker sit matchmaker and tackhammer, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 23 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 251 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
matchmaker and tackhammer tie for the highest Scrabble score from matchmaker at 23 points. The top 10 of 251 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in matchmaker: one comes from rearranging its letters, and matchmaker itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are matchmaker and tackhammer, each worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling matchmaker turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are matchmake and matchmark, each worth 22 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling matchmaker produces exactly one eight-letter word: hatmaker. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in matchmaker produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hatrack, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling matchmaker turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camera, hammer, karate, market, and racket. For points, the strongest plays are chakra, charka, and hacker — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matchmaker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, charm, chart, cheat, cream, earth, and heart. For points, the strongest plays are chark, hacek, ketch, and thack — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in matchmaker produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, area, cake, came, care, cart, and chat. For points, the strongest plays are hack and heck — each 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 matchmaker turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act, aha, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matchmaker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, at, eh, ha, he, and hm. 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in matchmaker plus one additional letter.
matchmaker 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 one sense for matchmaker. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
matchmaker is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matchmaker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are matchmaker and tackhammer, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from matchmaker 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 matchmaker produce 251 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.