mattering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mattering is the highest-scoring word from mattering, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mattering — and it is mattering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treating. For points, the strongest plays are emigrant and remating — 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 mattering produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, the strongest plays are garment, germina, mangier, margent, marting, matting, metring, migrant, migrate, mintage, ragtime, reaming, teaming, tegmina, and terming — 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 mattering turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, magnet, matter, rating, remain, and target. For points, the strongest plays are arming, engram, enigma, gamier, gamine, german, imager, magnet, maigre, manger, margin, mating, meting, mirage, ragmen, 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 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, giant, grant, great, image, and meant. For points, the strongest plays are gamer, gamin, grime, image, mange, marge, and regma — each 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 mattering produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn, gain, game, gate, germ, and item. For points, the strongest plays are game, germ, gram, grim, mage, magi, marg, and mega — each 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 mattering turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, ant, are, arm, and art. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, and me. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in mattering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mattering 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.
mattering 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.
mattering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mattering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mattering, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mattering 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 mattering produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.