Hidden inside matinees sit etamines, matinees, and miseaten, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 289 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
etamines, matinees, and miseaten tie for the highest Scrabble score from matinees at 10 points. The top 10 of 289 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in matinees: two come from rearranging its letters, and matinees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are etamines, matinees, and miseaten, 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 matinees produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meanest. For points, the strongest plays are emetins, etamine, etamins, inmates, matinee, meanest, meanies, nemesia, steamie, and tameins — 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 matinees turns up 31 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aments, amines, animes, emetin, enemas, etamin, inmate, inseam, mantes, mantis, matins, meanie, mensae, mesian, misate, miseat, samite, santim, seamen, semina, stamen, 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 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matinees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, items, mates, means, meant, meats, and meets. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, anime, emits, enema, items, mains, maist, manes, manis, manse, mates, matin, means, meant, meats, meets, mensa, mense, menta, mesne, metes, metis, miens, minae, minas, mines, mints, mites, names, neems, nemas, satem, semen, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, teems, and times — 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 matinees produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, ease, east, eats, and item. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amen, amie, amin, amis, emes, emit, item, maes, main, mane, mani, mans, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, meet, mesa, meta, mete, mien, mina, mine, mint, mise, mist, mite, name, neem, nema, nims, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, smit, stem, stim, tame, tams, 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 matinees turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, its, man, and men. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, eme, ems, ism, mae, man, mas, mat, men, mes, met, mis, nam, nim, sim, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matinees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
19 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in matinees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in matinees 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.
matinees 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 matinees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
matinees is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matinees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are etamines, matinees, and miseaten, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from matinees 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 matinees produce 289 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.