mortmains 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, 380 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mortmains is the highest-scoring word from mortmains, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 380 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mortmains — and it is mortmains itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mortmains produces exactly one eight-letter word: mortmain. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mortmains produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atomism and marmots, each 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 mortmains turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trains. For points, the strongest plays are ammino, marmot, mimosa, monism, and nomism — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortmains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, irons, minor, mints, moist, rains, and riots. For points, the strongest plays are ammos, imams, maims, miasm, and smarm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mortmains produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, ants, arms, arts, atom, and main. For points, the strongest plays are ammo, maim, mams, momi, moms, and imam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mortmains turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ant, arm, art, its, and man. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mim, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mortmains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 mortmains plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mortmains 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.
mortmains 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 mortmains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
mortmains is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mortmains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mortmains, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mortmains 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 mortmains produce 380 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.