Hidden inside rainmat sit martian and tamarin, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RAINMAT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MARTIAN and TAMARIN.
martian and tamarin tie for the highest Scrabble score from rainmat at 9 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in rainmat 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 martian and tamarin, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rainmat turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are airman, amrita, mantra and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rainmat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with train. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including amain, amnia and amrit.
Rearranging the letters in rainmat produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with main, mint, rain, and trim. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including main, mint and trim.
Unscrambling rainmat turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and man.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rainmat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rainmat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rainmat 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are martian and tamarin, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rainmat 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 rainmat produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.