Hidden inside amateurish sit amateurish and hematurias, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 663 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amateurish and hematurias tie for the highest Scrabble score from amateurish at 15 points. The top 10 of 663 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in amateurish: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amateurish itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amateurish and hematurias, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amateurish turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hematuria and shamateur, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amateurish. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arethusa, hetairas, and thesauri, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amateurish produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hamster, maestri, and traumas. For points, the strongest plays are atheism, hamates, hamster, hermits, humates, mishear, mithers, mushier, mushrat, thairms, and thirams — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amateurish turns up 99 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, hearts, master, mature, theirs, and trauma. For points, the strongest plays are ahimsa, ashram, asthma, hamate, harems, hermai, hermit, humate, humeri, ihrams, mahuas, marish, masher, mashie, matsah, mirths, mither, musher, muthas, rheums, shmear, shumai, thairm, tharms, theism, therms, thiram, and thrums — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 177 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amateurish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, areas, earth, hairs, harms, hates, and hears. For points, the strongest plays are amahs, haems, hames, haram, harem, harms, herma, herms, ihram, mahua, marsh, maths, meths, mirth, musth, mutha, rheum, shame, shtum, smith, tharm, therm, and thrum — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amateurish produces 200 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, airs, area, arms, arts, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, amah, mash, math, mesh, meth, mush, sham, shim, them, haem, hame, hams, harm, hems, herm, hims, and hums — 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 amateurish turns up 104 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, aim, air, are, arm, and art. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, him, hum, and meh — 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 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amateurish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in amateurish plus one additional letter.
amateurish 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 amateurish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
amateurish is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amateurish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amateurish and hematurias, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amateurish 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 amateurish produce 663 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 99 six-letter words, 177 five-letter words, 200 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.