Unscramble MAQUISES and you have 133 words, MAQUISES itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 21 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.
By length, the words from MAQUISES split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 11 with 6, 26 with 5, 38 with 4, 38 with 3 and 16 with 2.
MAQUI, QUIMS and UMIAQ share the top score of 16 among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble MAQUISES. ISSUE, QUASI and SEAMS are the ones most people know.
QUIM tops the 4-letter words from MAQUISES at 15 points; next come QUAI and SUQS on 13. SAME, USES and MASS will look familiar.
Keep every letter of MAQUISES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with MA · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What MAQUISES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US accepts MAQUISES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAQUISES itself | Yes | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 133) | 98 | 132 | 89 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 35 of them: SQUAMES, SQUAME, QUIMS, SAIQUES, QUIM, SAIQUE, AMISES, MAISES, MISSAE, MAISE, MASUS, MISSA and 23 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: QIS, QI, MASES, SUMIS, SUMI, MES, UMS and SUS. Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: MAQUISES.
With one more tile, the letters of MAQUISES spell the words below.