Hidden inside mating sit mating and taming, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mating and taming tie for the highest Scrabble score from mating at 9 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in mating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mating 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 mating and taming, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant. For points, the strongest play is gamin — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mating produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, main, and mint. For points, the strongest play is magi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mating turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, man, nag, tag, tan, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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 mating 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.
mating 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 3-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 mating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
mating is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mating and taming, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mating 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 mating produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.