Hidden inside minarets sit minarets and raiments, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 512 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
minarets and raiments tie for the highest Scrabble score from minarets at 10 points. The top 10 of 512 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in minarets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and minarets 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 minarets and raiments, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in minarets produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri, nastier, remains, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are etamins, imarets, inmates, maestri, marines, martens, martins, minaret, minster, minters, misrate, raiment, remains, remints, sarment, seminar, smarten, smartie, and tameins — 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 minarets turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, master, remain, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, airmen, aments, amines, amrits, animes, armets, armies, etamin, imaret, inarms, inmate, inseam, mantes, mantis, marine, marten, martin, master, maters, matier, matins, matres, merits, mesian, miners, minter, misate, miseat, mister, miters, mitres, namers, ramens, ramets, ramies, ramins, remain, remans, remint, remits, samier, samite, santim, semina, smiter, stamen, stream, tamein, tamers, and timers — 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 151 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minarets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, items, mates, means, meant, meats, and mints. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, amirs, amrit, anime, armet, emirs, emits, inarm, items, mains, mairs, maist, manes, manis, manse, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, matin, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, merit, metis, miens, minae, minas, miner, mines, mints, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, namer, names, nemas, ramen, ramet, ramie, ramin, reams, reman, remit, rimes, satem, simar, smart, smear, smite, steam, stime, tamer, tames, tamis, teams, terms, timer, times, trams, trems, and trims — 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 minarets produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, ants, arms, arts, and main. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amen, amie, amin, amir, amis, arms, maes, main, mair, mane, mani, mans, mare, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, mesa, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, name, nema, nims, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, sima, smit, stem, stim, emir, emit, item, tame, tams, 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 minarets turns up 79 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, ems, ism, mae, man, mar, mas, mat, men, mes, met, mir, mis, nam, nim, ram, rem, rim, sim, 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minarets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
20 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in minarets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in minarets 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.
minarets 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 minarets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
minarets is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minarets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are minarets and raiments, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from minarets 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 minarets produce 512 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 151 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.