Hidden inside minutes sit minuets, minutes, mistune and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble UNITESM, MUSTIEN or MENSTUI and you get the same 7 letters as MINUTES: so the words from MINUTES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
minuets, minutes, mistune and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from minutes at 9 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in minutes: three come from rearranging its letters, and minutes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minutes. For points, the strongest plays are minuets, minutes, mistune, and mutines — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, menus and mints. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including items, menus and mints.
Rearranging the letters in minutes produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, menu and mine. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including item, menu and mine.
Unscrambling minutes turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and ems.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in minutes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in minutes 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.
minutes 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 one sense for minutes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
minutes is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minutes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are minuets, minutes, mistune, and mutines, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from minutes 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 minutes produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.