Hidden inside mauger sit mauger, maugre, and murage, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mauger, maugre, and murage tie for the highest Scrabble score from mauger at 9 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in mauger: two come from rearranging its letters, and mauger itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mauger, maugre, and murage, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mauger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue. For points, the strongest plays are gamer, grume, 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 mauger produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, germ, rage, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are game, gaum, germ, geum, gram, grum, mage, 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 mauger turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, arm, ear, era, gum, and mug. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, gum, mag, meg, and mug — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mauger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, me, and um. 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 mauger and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mauger 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.
mauger is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mauger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mauger, maugre, and murage, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mauger 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 mauger produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.