Hidden inside mutagen sit augment and mutagen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
augment and mutagen tie for the highest Scrabble score from mutagen at 10 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mutagen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mutagen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are augment and mutagen, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mutagen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent and meant. For points, the strongest plays are gamut and mange — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mutagen produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, aunt and game. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including game, gaum and geum.
Unscrambling mutagen turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mug and gam.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mutagen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mutagen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mutagen 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.
mutagen 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for mutagen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mutagen is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mutagen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are augment and mutagen, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mutagen 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 mutagen produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.