Hidden inside mustard sit durmast and mustard, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble STURMAD, TRAMSUD or DRUMATS and you get the same 7 letters as MUSTARD: so the words from MUSTARD listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
durmast and mustard tie for the highest Scrabble score from mustard at 10 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mustard: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mustard itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mustard. For points, the strongest plays are durmast and mustard — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mustard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drums and smart. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including drums, datum and drams.
Rearranging the letters in mustard produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and drum. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including drum, muds and dams.
Unscrambling mustard turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, arm and art. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dum, mad, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mustard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mustard plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mustard 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.
mustard 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 three senses for mustard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mustard is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mustard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are durmast and mustard, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mustard 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 mustard produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.