maturates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 315 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maturates is the highest-scoring word from maturates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 315 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in maturates — and it is maturates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maturates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maturest. For points, the strongest plays are amateurs, maturate, and maturest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maturates produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matters and traumas. For points, the strongest plays are amateur, matters, matures, mutates, mutters, smatter, stratum, strumae, and traumas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maturates turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, matter, mature, statue, trauma, treats, and truest. For points, the strongest plays are amuser, arames, armets, asarum, estrum, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, mature, meatus, muster, mutase, mutate, mutest, mutter, ramate, ramets, stream, struma, tamers, tamest, and trauma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maturates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, areas, mates, meats, rates, smart, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are amuse, arame, armet, arums, atmas, maars, maras, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, matte, matts, mauts, meats, muras, mures, muser, muter, mutes, mutts, ramet, ramus, reams, satem, serum, smart, smear, steam, strum, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maturates produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arms, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are amas, amus, arms, arum, atma, emus, maar, maes, mara, mare, mars, mart, masa, mast, mate, mats, matt, maut, meat, mesa, meta, mura, mure, muse, must, mute, muts, mutt, rams, ream, rems, rums, same, seam, smut, stem, stum, tame, tams, team, term, tram, trem, and tums — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maturates turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ama, amu, arm, ems, emu, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, mus, mut, ram, rem, rum, sum, tam, tum, and ums — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maturates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in maturates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maturates 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.
maturates 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 three senses for maturates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
maturates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maturates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maturates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maturates 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 maturates produce 315 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.