muskrat needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
muskrat is the highest-scoring word from muskrat, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in muskrat — and it is muskrat itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muskrat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marks and smart. For points, the strongest plays are marks and murks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in muskrat produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and mark. For points, the strongest plays are mark, mask, murk, and musk — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling muskrat turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, art and ask. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and auk.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muskrat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in muskrat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in muskrat and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
muskrat 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 2-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 muskrat. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
muskrat is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing muskrat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is muskrat, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from muskrat 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 muskrat produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.