Hidden inside mistreats sit mistreats and teratisms, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 466 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mistreats and teratisms tie for the highest Scrabble score from mistreats at 11 points. The top 10 of 466 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in mistreats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mistreats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mistreats and teratisms, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mattress and smartest. For points, the strongest plays are asterism, etatisms, mattress, metrists, misrates, misstart, misstate, mistreat, smartest, smarties, smatters, and teratism — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mistreats produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, maestri, masters, matters, sitters, and tastier. For points, the strongest plays are etatism, imarets, maestri, massier, masters, matiest, matters, metrist, miseats, misrate, misseat, misters, samiest, samites, smartie, smatter, smiters, statism, streams, tamises, and tsarism — 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 mistreats turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, artist, master, matter, raises, resist, and sister. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, amrits, armets, armies, imaret, maists, marses, masers, master, maters, matier, matres, matter, mattes, merits, misate, miseat, misers, misset, mister, miters, mitres, ramets, ramies, remiss, remits, samier, samite, simars, smarts, smears, smiter, smites, steams, stimes, stream, tamers, tamest, timers, and tmesis — 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 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates, meats, raise, rates, rests, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amies, amirs, amiss, amrit, armet, emirs, emits, items, mairs, maist, mares, marse, marts, maser, mases, masse, masts, mater, mates, matte, matts, meats, merit, mesas, metis, mires, miser, mises, mists, miter, mites, mitre, mitts, ramet, ramie, reams, remit, rimes, satem, seams, seism, semis, simar, simas, smart, smear, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tamer, tames, tamis, teams, terms, timer, times, trams, 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 mistreats produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, arts, mass, mate, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amir, amis, arms, maes, mair, mare, mars, mart, mass, mast, mate, mats, matt, meat, mesa, mess, meta, mire, mirs, mise, miss, mist, mite, mitt, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, emir, emit, isms, item, tame, tams, team, term, time, tram, 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 mistreats turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, ems, ism, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, mir, mis, ram, rem, rim, sim, and tam — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mistreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in mistreats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mistreats and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
mistreats 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 1-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 mistreats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mistreats is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mistreats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mistreats and teratisms, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mistreats 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 mistreats produce 466 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.