Hidden inside minters 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 minters 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 minters: two come from rearranging its letters, and minters 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 minters 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 minters. 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 minters 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 minters 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 minters. 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 minters 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.
minters 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 minters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
minters is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minters 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 minters 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 minters 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.