Hidden inside masters sit masters and streams, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
masters and streams tie for the highest Scrabble score from masters at 9 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in masters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and masters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masters. For points, the strongest plays are masters and streams — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling masters turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, stares, and steams. For points, the strongest plays are armets, marses, masers, master, maters, matres, ramets, smarts, smears, steams, stream, and tamers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, rates, rests, seats, smart, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are armet, mares, marse, marts, maser, mases, masse, masts, mater, mates, meats, mesas, ramet, reams, satem, seams, smart, smear, steam, stems, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in masters produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and mass. For points, the strongest plays are arms, maes, mare, mars, mart, mass, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, mess, meta, rams, ream, rems, same, seam, stem, tame, tams, team, term, tram, and trem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling masters turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are arm, ems, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, ram, rem, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in masters 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.
masters 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 1-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 masters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
masters is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing masters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are masters and streams, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from masters 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 masters produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.