Hidden inside mercados sit comrades and mercados, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 353 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comrades and mercados tie for the highest Scrabble score from mercados at 13 points. The top 10 of 353 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in mercados: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mercados 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 comrades and mercados, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mercados produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caromed, comrade, and mercado, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mercados turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, creams and dreams. For points, the strongest play is comade — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mercados. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed and cards. For points, the strongest play is maced — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mercados produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, made and mode. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including scam, came and coma.
Unscrambling mercados turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mercados. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in mercados plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mercados 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.
mercados is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
mercados is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mercados unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are comrades and mercados, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mercados 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 mercados produce 353 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.