mayings needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mayings is the highest-scoring word from mayings, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in mayings — and it is mayings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mayings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains. For points, the strongest plays are mangy and mingy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mayings produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, gain and gyms. For points, the strongest plays are gamy and gyms — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mayings turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, any and gas. For points, the strongest play is gym — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mayings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mayings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mayings 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.
mayings 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.
mayings is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mayings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mayings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mayings 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 mayings produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.