Hidden inside mutuals sit mutuals and umlauts, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mutuals and umlauts tie for the highest Scrabble score from mutuals at 9 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mutuals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mutuals 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 mutuals and umlauts, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mutuals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with usual. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including alums, lumas and malts.
Rearranging the letters in mutuals produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with last, must, salt, and slam. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including must, slam and alms.
Unscrambling mutuals turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sat. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including amu, lam and lum.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mutuals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in mutuals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mutuals 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.
mutuals is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for mutuals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
mutuals is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mutuals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mutuals and umlauts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mutuals 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 mutuals produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.