Hidden inside maybes sit embays and maybes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
embays and maybes tie for the highest Scrabble score from maybes at 13 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in maybes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maybes 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 embays and maybes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maybes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beams and maybe. For points, the strongest plays are abysm, beamy, embay, and maybe — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maybes produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bays, beam, easy, mays, and same. For points, the strongest plays are abye, abys, bays, beys, byes, mays, and yams — 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 maybes turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aye, bam, bay, bye, may, say, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, bey, bye, bys, may, and yam — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maybes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, ay, be, by, me, and my. For points, the strongest plays are by and my — each worth 7 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 maybes 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.
maybes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for maybes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
maybes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maybes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are embays and maybes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maybes 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 maybes produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.