Hidden inside matsahs sit asthmas and matsahs, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asthmas and matsahs tie for the highest Scrabble score from matsahs at 12 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in matsahs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and matsahs 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 asthmas and matsahs, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling matsahs turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asthma, matsah, and shamas, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matsahs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maths and smash. For points, the strongest plays are amahs, maths, shams, and smash — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in matsahs produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hams, hats, mass, and math. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hams, math and amah.
Unscrambling matsahs turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and ash. For points, the strongest play is ham — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in matsahs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in matsahs 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.
matsahs 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in matsahs carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
matsahs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matsahs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asthmas and matsahs, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from matsahs 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 matsahs produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.