Hidden inside mattress sit mattress, smartest, and smatters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mattress, smartest, and smatters tie for the highest Scrabble score from mattress at 10 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in mattress: two come from rearranging its letters, and mattress itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mattress and smartest. For points, the strongest plays are mattress, smartest, and smatters — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mattress produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masters and matters. For points, the strongest plays are masters, matters, smatter, and streams — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mattress turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, matter and stares. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including master, matter and steams.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mattress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats and rates. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including mates, meats and smart.
Rearranging the letters in mattress produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and ears. For points, 26 words tie at 6 points, including arms, mass and mate.
Unscrambling mattress turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and ems.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mattress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in mattress plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mattress and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mattress 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 1-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 mattress. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mattress is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mattress unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mattress, smartest, and smatters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mattress 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 mattress produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.