Hidden inside murals sit larums and murals, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
larums and murals tie for the highest Scrabble score from murals at 8 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in murals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and murals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murals. For points, the strongest plays are larums and murals — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in murals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mural. For points, the strongest plays are alums, arums, larum, lumas, marls, mauls, mural, muras, and ramus — 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 murals produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, rums, and slam. For points, the strongest plays are alms, alum, amus, arms, arum, lams, luma, lums, marl, mars, maul, mura, rams, rums, slam, and slum — 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 murals turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm and rum. For points, the strongest plays are amu, arm, lam, lum, mar, mas, mus, ram, rum, sum, and ums — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in murals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — 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 murals 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.
murals 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 murals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
murals is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing murals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are larums and murals, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from murals 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 murals produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.