24 words come out when you unscramble MAES, starting with MAES itself: 6 in Scrabble, 7 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: AMES, MASE, MESA, SAME and SEAM. The best shorter words score 5: 7 of them, SAM, MAS and EMS included. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from MAES split into 6 with 4 letters, 10 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of MAES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with MA · ending in ES · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to MAES:
MAES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
MAES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 24) | 17 | 24 | 16 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AMES, MASE, AME, SAM, SMA, EAS and EA, 7 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: MES.
Each word below uses all the letters of MAES and one more.