Hidden inside minute sit minuet, minute, and mutine, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
minuet, minute, and mutine tie for the highest Scrabble score from minute at 8 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in minute: two come from rearranging its letters, and minute itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minute. For points, the strongest plays are minuet, minute, and mutine — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minute. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is unmet, 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 minute produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, menu, mine, mint, time, tune, and unit. For points, the strongest plays are emit, item, menu, mien, mine, mint, mite, muni, mute, neum, and time — 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 minute turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met, net, nut, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are emu, men, met, mun, mut, nim, and tum — 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 minute. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, me, and um. 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 minute and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
minute 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 eight senses for minute. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
minute is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minute unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are minuet, minute, and mutine, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from minute 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 minute produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.