Hidden inside mutilated sit mutilated and ultimated, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mutilated and ultimated tie for the highest Scrabble score from mutilated at 12 points. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in mutilated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mutilated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mutilated and ultimated, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mutilated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ultimate. For points, the strongest plays are mutilate and ultimate — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mutilated produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are miauled and mutated, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mutilated turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail and mailed. For points, the strongest plays are almude, mailed, malted, matted, mauled, medial, milted, and tedium — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mutilated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, adult, aimed, dealt, email, ideal, and latte. For points, the strongest plays are admit, aimed, almud, amide, datum, demit, lamed, limed, mated, medal, media, muled, muted, tamed, timed, and tumid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mutilated produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal, deli, dial, diet, dime, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, dime, duma, idem, made, maid, maud, mead, meld, and mild — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mutilated turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, ate, die, due, eat, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dum, mad, med, mid, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mutilated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, id, it, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in mutilated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mutilated and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
mutilated 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 one sense for mutilated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mutilated is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mutilated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mutilated and ultimated, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mutilated 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 mutilated produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.