Hidden inside matinee sit etamine and matinee, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
etamine and matinee tie for the highest Scrabble score from matinee at 9 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in matinee: one comes from rearranging its letters, and matinee 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 etamine and matinee, 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 matinee turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emetin, etamin, inmate, meanie, and tamein, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matinee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten and meant. For points, the strongest plays are ament, amine, anime, enema, matin, meant, menta, and minae — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in matinee produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, item, main, mate, mean, meat, and meet. For points, the strongest plays are amen, amie, amin, emit, item, main, mane, mani, mate, mean, meat, meet, meta, mete, mien, mina, mine, mint, mite, name, neem, nema, tame, team, teem, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling matinee turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, man, men, and met. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, eme, mae, man, mat, men, met, nam, nim, and tam — each worth 5 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 matinee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 matinee 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.
matinee 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 matinee. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
matinee is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matinee unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are etamine and matinee, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from matinee 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 matinee produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.