Hidden inside maturation sit maturation and natatorium, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 314 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maturation and natatorium tie for the highest Scrabble score from maturation at 12 points. The top 10 of 314 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in maturation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maturation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maturation and natatorium, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maturation produces exactly one nine-letter word: antitumor. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maturation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are animator, antiatom, and mutation, 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 maturation produces 15 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are animato, automan, automat, manitou, martian, mutator, natrium, romaunt, tamarin, tantrum, timarau, tinamou, and tritoma, 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 maturation turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount, mutant, and trauma. For points, the strongest plays are airman, amauti, amount, amrita, antrum, atrium, manito, manitu, mantra, mantua, marina, martin, matron, mattin, mutant, mutton, outman, ramona, rumina, tamari, tatami, titman, trauma, and untrim — 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maturation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minor, mount, train, and tumor. For points, the strongest plays are amain, amino, amnia, amnio, amort, amour, amrit, anima, aroma, atman, inarm, manat, mania, manor, manta, maria, matin, miaou, minor, moira, mount, mourn, muton, notum, onium, ramin, roman, toman, tumor, and unarm — 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 maturation produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, aunt, auto, into, iron, main, and mint. For points, the strongest plays are amia, amin, amir, arum, atma, atom, maar, main, mair, mana, mani, mano, mara, mart, matt, maun, maut, mina, mint, mitt, moan, moat, mora, morn, mort, mott, muni, muon, mura, mutt, noma, norm, omit, rami, roam, tram, and trim — 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 maturation turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ant, arm, art, man, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, amu, arm, man, mar, mat, mir, moa, moi, mon, mor, mot, mun, mut, nam, nim, nom, oma, ram, rim, rom, rum, tam, tom, and tum — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maturation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, mu, om, 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in maturation plus one additional letter.
maturation 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for maturation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
maturation is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maturation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maturation and natatorium, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maturation 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 maturation produce 314 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.