matricides needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 804 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
matricides is the highest-scoring word from matricides, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 804 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in matricides — and it is matricides itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling matricides turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diametric, matricide, misdirect and 2 more, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matricides. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dimetric, misacted, miscited, and timecard, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in matricides produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires, credits and dairies. For points, the strongest play is dimeric — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling matricides turns up 136 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, admits and armies. For points, the strongest plays are amidic, dermic, and medics — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 246 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matricides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cards, cared and cares. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in matricides produces 207 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and mice.
Unscrambling matricides turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matricides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in matricides plus one additional letter.
matricides 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 two senses for matricides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
matricides is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matricides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is matricides, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from matricides 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 matricides produce 804 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 136 six-letter words, 246 five-letter words, 207 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.