Unscramble MARTIALS and you have 240 words, MARTIALS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. MARTIALS has 2 anagrams here, ALARMIST and ALASTRIM, scoring 10 like MARTIALS itself. 6 shorter words score 9, among them MARTIAL, MARITAL and MISTRAL. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from MARTIALS by length: 3 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 35 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 17 with 2.
Of the 35 6-letter words from MARTIALS, 17 score 8 points, the group's best. TRIALS, TRAILS and ALARMS are the ones most people know.
37 of 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble MARTIALS tie at 7 points; none scores more. SMART, ALARM and MARIA will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words made with MARTIALS letters, 47 score 6 points, the group's best. MAIL, ARMS and MARS are the ones most people know.
Among 57 3-letter words you get when you unscramble MARTIALS, the top score is 5, reached by 20. ITS, ART and AIR are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of MARTIALS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with MA · ending in LS · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ALARMIST (10 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
MARTIALS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIALS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 240) | 196 | 240 | 184 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALASTRIM, MARTIALS, ALISMA, ARMILS, MALIST, MATAIS, MISTAL, TALMAS, AMLAS, ARMIL, MALAS, MALIS and 32 more, 44 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: AMRITS, AMRIT, MARAS, RAMAL, LAARIS, MARA, MASA, RAITAS, STIM, RAITA, ATS and RAI, 12 in all.
These 7 words take every letter of MARTIALS plus a single extra one.