Hidden inside matures sit matures and strumae, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 215 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
matures and strumae tie for the highest Scrabble score from matures at 9 points. The top 10 of 215 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in matures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and matures itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are matures and strumae, 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 matures turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master and mature. For points, the strongest plays are amuser, armets, estrum, master, maters, matres, mature, meatus, muster, mutase, ramets, stream, struma, and tamers — 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, mates, meats, rates, smart, stare, and steam. For points, the strongest plays are amuse, armet, arums, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, mauts, meats, muras, mures, muser, muter, mutes, 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 matures produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are amus, arms, arum, emus, maes, mare, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, maut, meat, mesa, meta, mura, mure, muse, must, mute, muts, 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 matures turns up 54 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 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matures. 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.
Swap a single tile in matures and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
matures 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 eleven senses for matures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
matures is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are matures and strumae, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from matures 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 matures produce 215 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.