Hidden inside matinesses sit matinesses and steaminess, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 459 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
matinesses and steaminess tie for the highest Scrabble score from matinesses at 12 points. The top 10 of 459 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in matinesses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and matinesses 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 matinesses and steaminess, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling matinesses turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amnesties, meatiness, and seaminess, 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 24 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matinesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messiest and sameness. For points, the strongest plays are etamines, mantises, massiest, matinees, matiness, messiest, metisses, miseases, miseaten, misseats, missense, nemesias, sameness, samisens, seamiest, siameses, steamies, and tameness — 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 matinesses produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest and meanest. For points, the strongest plays are emetins, etamine, etamins, inmates, inseams, matinee, meanest, meanies, messans, metisse, misease, miseats, misseat, missent, missets, nemesia, nemesis, samiest, samisen, samites, santims, semises, sesames, siamese, siemens, stamens, steamie, tameins, and tamises — 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 matinesses turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, messes, misses, saints, sanest, senses, and stains. For points, the strongest plays are aments, amines, animes, emesis, emetin, enemas, etamin, inmate, inseam, maists, manses, mantes, mantis, masses, matins, meanie, mensae, mensas, menses, mesian, mesnes, messan, messes, misate, miseat, misses, misset, samite, santim, seamen, seisms, semens, semina, sesame, smites, stamen, steams, stimes, tamein, tmeses, and tmesis — 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 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matinesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, eases, eaten, items, mates, means, and meant. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, amiss, anime, emits, enema, items, mains, maist, manes, manis, manse, mases, masse, masts, mates, matin, means, meant, meats, meets, mensa, mense, menta, mesas, mesne, metes, metis, miens, minae, minas, mines, mints, mises, mists, mites, names, neems, nemas, satem, seams, seems, seism, semen, semes, semis, simas, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, 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 matinesses produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, main, mass, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amen, amie, amin, amis, maes, main, mane, mani, mans, mass, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, meet, mesa, mess, meta, mete, mien, mina, mine, mint, mise, miss, mist, mite, name, neem, nema, nims, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, emes, emit, isms, item, 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 matinesses turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ass, ate, eat, its, and man. 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 matinesses. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in matinesses plus one additional letter.
matinesses 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.
matinesses is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matinesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are matinesses and steaminess, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from matinesses 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 matinesses produce 459 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 24 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.