Hidden inside tamers sit armets, master, maters and 4 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
armets, master, maters and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tamers at 8 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 six-letter words hiding in tamers: six come from rearranging its letters, and tamers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master. For points, the strongest plays are armets, master, maters, matres, ramets, 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tamers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, rates, smart, stare, steam, and teams. For points, the strongest plays are armet, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meats, ramet, reams, satem, smart, smear, steam, 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 tamers produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are arms, maes, mare, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, 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 tamers turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. 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 tamers. 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.
34 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tamers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tamers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tamers 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 tamers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tamers is one of seven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tamers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are armets, master, maters, matres, ramets, stream, and tamers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tamers 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 tamers produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.