Hidden inside maur sit arum and mura, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MAUR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARUM and MURA.
arum and mura tie for the highest Scrabble score from maur at 6 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in maur produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arum and mura, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in maur and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arum and mura, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maur 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 maur produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.