mortars 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, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mortars is the highest-scoring word from mortars, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in mortars — and it is mortars itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mortars turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armors, mortar, 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, roast, smart, and storm. For points, the strongest plays are amort, armor, atoms, marts, moats, moras, morts, roams, smart, 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 mortars produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, atom, most, rats, sort, and star. For points, the strongest plays are arms, atom, mars, mart, mast, mats, moas, moat, mora, mors, mort, most, mots, omas, rams, roam, roms, 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 mortars turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, art, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are arm, mar, mas, mat, moa, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortars. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in mortars plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mortars 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.
mortars 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 four senses for mortars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
mortars is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mortars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mortars, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mortars 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 mortars produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.