mortgages needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 449 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mortgages is the highest-scoring word from mortgages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 449 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mortgages — and it is mortgages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mortgages produces exactly one eight-letter word: mortgage. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mortgages produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestro and storage. For points, the strongest play is maggots — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mortgages turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master and orgasm. For points, the strongest play is maggot — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 115 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortgages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, games, gates, germs, goats, great, and mates. For points, the strongest plays are gamer, games, gemot, germs, gomer, gorms, grams, mages, magot, marge, margs, ogams, omega, regma, and smorg — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mortgages produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arms, arts, atom, mate, meat, and more. For points, the strongest plays are mage, mags, marg, mega, megs, mogs, ogam, smog, game, gams, gems, germ, gorm, and gram — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mortgages turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, arm, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortgages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, go, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in mortgages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mortgages 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.
mortgages 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 two senses for mortgages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
mortgages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mortgages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mortgages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mortgages 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 mortgages produce 449 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 115 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.