Hidden inside mateships sit mateships, shipmates, and steamship, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 454 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mateships, shipmates, and steamship tie for the highest Scrabble score from mateships at 16 points. The top 10 of 454 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in mateships: two come from rearranging its letters, and mateships 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 mateships, shipmates, and steamship, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mateships. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emphasis, mateship, misshape, and shipmate, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mateships produces 22 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are empaths and mishaps, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mateships turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases, shames and shapes. For points, the strongest plays are empath, mishap, and pashms — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mateships. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, hates and heats. For points, the strongest plays are hemps and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mateships produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims and apes. For points, the strongest play is hemp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mateships turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape and ash. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and hip.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mateships. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in mateships plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mateships 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.
mateships 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
mateships is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mateships unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mateships, shipmates, and steamship, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mateships 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 mateships produce 454 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.