Unscramble MAINOURS and you have 241 words, MAINOURS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from MAINOURS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 29 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 27 with 2.
Among 29 6-letter words in MAINOURS, the top score is 8, reached by 25. ROMANS, MINORS and RANSOM are the familiar ones.
54 of 60 5-letter words from MAINOURS tie at 7 points; none scores more. MINOR, ROMAN and MASON will look familiar.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble MAINOURS come to 60, each scoring 6 points. MAIN, ARMS and MARS are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 3-letter words made with MAINOURS letters, 34 score 5 points, the group's best. MAN, AIR and MAR are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of MAINOURS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with MA · ending in RS · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with URANISM (9 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: MAINOURS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAINOURS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 241) | 178 | 240 | 158 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
63 of the 241 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MAINOURS, MAINORS, MAINOUR, SURAMIN, MAINOR, MARONS, MAURIS, MINARS, MORIAS, NORMAS, ONIUMS, URMANS and 51 more. 19 of the 241 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: AMINOS, AMNIOS, RAMINS, AMNIO, MANIS, RAMIN, SOMAN, MANI, MUSO, NAIRUS, OMAS, MOI and 7 more. 1 of the 241 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: INROS.
With one more tile, the letters of MAINOURS spell the words below.