Hidden inside minster sit minster, minters, and remints, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
minster, minters, and remints tie for the highest Scrabble score from minster at 9 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in minster: two come from rearranging its letters, and minster 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 minster, minters, and remints, 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 minster turns up 20 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are merits, miners, minter, mister, miters, mitres, remint, remits, smiter, 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mints, rents, risen, siren, terms, and times. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, emits, items, merit, metis, miens, miner, mines, mints, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, remit, rimes, smite, stime, terms, timer, times, 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 minster produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mine, mint, nest, nets, rent, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are emir, emit, item, mien, mine, mint, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, nims, rems, rime, rims, semi, smit, stem, stim, term, time, 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 minster turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, set, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are ems, ism, men, mes, met, mir, mis, nim, rem, rim, and sim — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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 minster 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.
minster 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 minster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
minster is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are minster, minters, and remints, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from minster 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 minster produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.