minuses needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
minuses is the highest-scoring word from minuses, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in minuses — and it is minuses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling minuses turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misuse and sensum, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, menus, and minus. For points, the strongest plays are menus, miens, mines, minus, mises, munis, muses, neums, seism, semis, and sumis — 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 minuses produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, mess, mine, miss, sins, sues, and suns. For points, the strongest plays are emus, isms, menu, mess, mien, mine, mise, miss, muni, muns, muse, muss, neum, nims, semi, sims, sumi, and sums — 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 minuses turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, sin, sue, sun, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ems, emu, ism, men, mes, mis, mun, mus, nim, sim, sum, and ums — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, and um — 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 minuses 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.
minuses 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for minuses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
minuses is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minuses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is minuses, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from minuses 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 minuses produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.