matsutake needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
matsutake is the highest-scoring word from matsutake, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in matsutake — and it is matsutake itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling matsutake produces exactly one seven-letter word: mutates. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling matsutake turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statue. For points, the strongest plays are makuta and musket — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matsutake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, makes, mates, meats, skate, state, and steak. For points, the strongest plays are kames, makes, and samek — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in matsutake produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, make, mask, mate, meat, and must. For points, the strongest plays are kame, make, mask, and musk — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling matsutake turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ate, eat, met, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ask, auk, kae, kas, kat, kea, kue, ska, suk, tsk, and uke — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matsutake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in matsutake plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in matsutake and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
matsutake is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
matsutake is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matsutake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is matsutake, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from matsutake 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 matsutake produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.