Hidden inside moutan sit amount and outman, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MOUTAN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AMOUNT and OUTMAN.
amount and outman tie for the highest Scrabble score from moutan at 8 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling moutan turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount. For points, the strongest plays are amount and outman — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moutan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mount. For points, the strongest plays are mount, muton, notum, and toman — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moutan produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, aunt, auto, and tuna. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including atom, mano and maun.
Unscrambling moutan turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, man and not. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including man, amu and mat.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moutan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in moutan plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moutan and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amount and outman, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moutan 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 moutan produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.