Hidden inside minaret sit minaret and raiment, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
minaret and raiment tie for the highest Scrabble score from minaret at 9 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in minaret: one comes from rearranging its letters, and minaret itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are minaret and raiment, 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 minaret turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remain. For points, the strongest plays are airmen, etamin, imaret, inmate, marine, marten, martin, matier, minter, remain, remint, and tamein — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minaret. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant and train. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, ament, amine, amrit, anime, armet, inarm, mater, matin, meant, menta, merit, minae, miner, miter, mitre, namer, ramen, ramet, ramie, ramin, reman, remit, tamer, and timer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in minaret produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn, item, main, mate, mean, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are amen, amie, amin, amir, emir, emit, item, main, mair, mane, mani, mare, mart, mate, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mire, mite, name, nema, rami, ream, rime, tame, team, term, time, tram, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling minaret turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ant, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, mae, man, mar, mat, men, met, mir, nam, nim, ram, rem, rim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minaret. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 minaret 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.
minaret 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for minaret. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
minaret is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minaret unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are minaret and raiment, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from minaret 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 minaret produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.