Hidden inside mortals sit mortals and stromal, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mortals and stromal tie for the highest Scrabble score from mortals at 9 points. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mortals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mortals 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 mortals and stromal, 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 mortals turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with almost. For points, the strongest plays are almost, molars, morals, mortal, smalto, stomal, and stroma — 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, moral, roast, smart, solar, and storm. For points, the strongest plays are amort, atoms, loams, malts, marls, marts, moats, molar, molas, molts, moral, moras, morts, roams, smalt, smart, smolt, stoma, storm, and trams — 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 mortals produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arms, arts, atom, last, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest plays are alms, arms, atom, lams, loam, malt, marl, mars, mart, mast, mats, moas, moat, mola, mols, molt, mora, mors, mort, most, mots, omas, rams, roam, roms, slam, soma, tams, toms, and tram — 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 mortals turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, art, lot, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are arm, lam, mar, mas, mat, moa, mol, mor, mos, mot, oma, oms, ram, rom, som, tam, and tom — 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 mortals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — 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 mortals 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.
mortals 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 five senses for mortals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
mortals is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mortals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mortals and stromal, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mortals 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 mortals produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.