Hidden inside mensural sit mensural and numerals, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 295 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mensural and numerals tie for the highest Scrabble score from mensural at 10 points. The top 10 of 295 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mensural: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mensural itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mensural and numerals, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mensural produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manures. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including manures, almners and maulers.
Unscrambling mensural turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learns, manure, and murals. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including manure, murals and almner.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mensural. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, earns and lamer. For points, 45 words tie at 7 points, including amuse, lamer and males.
Rearranging the letters in mensural produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, anus and arms. For points, 44 words tie at 6 points, including amen, arms and lame.
Unscrambling mensural turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including arm, man and men.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mensural. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in mensural plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mensural and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mensural 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for mensural. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mensural is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mensural unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mensural and numerals, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mensural 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 mensural produce 295 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.