Hidden inside mortises sit erotisms, mortises, and trisomes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 273 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
erotisms, mortises, and trisomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from mortises at 10 points. The top 10 of 273 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in mortises: two come from rearranging its letters, and mortises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are erotisms, mortises, and trisomes, 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 mortises produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister and stories. For points, the strongest plays are erotism, isomers, missort, misters, mitoses, moister, mortise, mossier, smiters, somites, and trisome — 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 mortises turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist, sister, sorest, stores, and storms. For points, the strongest plays are isomer, merits, metros, mioses, misers, misset, mister, miters, mitres, moires, mosser, remiss, remits, rimose, smiter, smites, somite, stimes, storms, 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 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, moist, rests, riots, rises, roses, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are emirs, emits, items, merit, metis, metro, mires, miser, mises, misos, mists, miter, mites, mitre, moire, moist, mores, morse, morts, moste, mosts, motes, omers, omits, remit, rimes, seism, semis, smite, smote, stems, stime, stims, storm, terms, timer, times, tomes, 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 mortises produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mess, miss, more, most, rest, and riot. For points, the strongest plays are emir, emit, emos, isms, item, mess, mire, mirs, mise, miso, miss, mist, mite, more, mors, mort, moss, most, mote, mots, omer, omit, rems, rime, rims, roms, semi, sims, smit, some, soms, stem, stim, term, time, tome, toms, 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 mortises turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, set, sir, sit, tie, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are emo, ems, ism, mes, met, mir, mis, moi, mor, mos, mot, oms, rem, rim, rom, sim, som, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, 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 mortises and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
mortises 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 three senses for mortises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mortises is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mortises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are erotisms, mortises, and trisomes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mortises 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 mortises produce 273 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.