Unscramble MENSA and you have 62 words, MENSA itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 7 anagrams at 7 points each, among them AMENS, MANES and MANSE. Among the shorter answers, 14 reach 6 points, NAME, SAME and MEAN among them. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from MENSA split into 8 with 5 letters, 20 with 4, 22 with 3 and 12 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of MENSA, with one letter different:
More 5-letter words: starting with ME · ending in SA · all 5-letter words
What MENSA means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. MENSA is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENSA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 62) | 45 | 62 | 42 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 17 of them: SAMEN, AMES, MASE, MNAS, NAMS, AME, MNA, SAM, SMA, EANS, SEAN, SENA and 5 more. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: MES, NAES and SAN.
These 12 words take every letter of MENSA plus a single extra one.