Hidden inside messua sit amuses and assume, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MESSUA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AMUSES and ASSUME.
amuses and assume tie for the highest Scrabble score from messua at 8 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling messua turns up 2 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: amuses and assume, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in messua produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mass, mess and same. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including mass, mess and same.
Unscrambling messua turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, sea, sue, and use. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including amu, ems and emu.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in messua plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in messua 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amuses and assume, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from messua 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 messua produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.