Hidden inside unmated sit unmated and untamed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unmated and untamed tie for the highest Scrabble score from unmated at 10 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in unmated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unmated 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 unmated and untamed, 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 unmated turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tandem and unmade, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unmated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant, named, and tuned. For points, the strongest plays are admen, amend, datum, dunam, maned, mated, maund, menad, muted, named, and tamed — 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 unmated produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, aunt, damn, date, made, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are dame, damn, duma, made, maud, mead, and mend — 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 unmated turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, ate, due, eat, end, and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dum, mad, med, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unmated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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.
Swap a single tile in unmated 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.
unmated 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 two senses for unmated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
unmated is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unmated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are unmated and untamed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unmated 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 unmated produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.