Hidden inside mateys sit mateys, mayest, and steamy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mateys, mayest, and steamy tie for the highest Scrabble score from mateys at 11 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in mateys: two come from rearranging its letters, and mateys itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mateys, mayest, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mateys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, steam, and teams. For points, the strongest plays are etyma, matey, mayst, meaty, samey, and seamy — 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 mateys produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, easy, eats, mate, mays, meat, and same. For points, the strongest plays are 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 mateys turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, aye, eat, may, met, sat, and say. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mateys. 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.
Swap a single tile in mateys and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mateys 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 mateys carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for mateys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mateys is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mateys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mateys, mayest, and steamy, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mateys 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 mateys produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.