Hidden inside amnesties sit amnesties and meatiness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 417 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amnesties and meatiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from amnesties at 11 points. The top 10 of 417 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in amnesties: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amnesties itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amnesties and meatiness, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amnesties. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are etamines, mantises, matinees, matiness, miseaten, nemesias, seamiest, steamies, and tameness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amnesties produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest and meanest. For points, the strongest plays are emetins, etamine, etamins, inmates, inseams, matinee, meanest, meanies, metisse, misease, miseats, misseat, missent, nemesia, nemesis, samiest, samisen, samites, santims, siamese, siemens, stamens, steamie, tameins, and tamises — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amnesties turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saints, sanest, stains, steams, and teases. For points, the strongest plays are aments, amines, animes, emesis, emetin, enemas, etamin, inmate, inseam, maists, manses, mantes, mantis, matins, meanie, mensae, mensas, menses, mesian, mesnes, messan, misate, miseat, misset, samite, santim, seamen, semens, semina, sesame, smites, stamen, steams, stimes, tamein, tmeses, and tmesis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amnesties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, eaten, items, mates, means, meant, and meats. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, amiss, anime, emits, enema, items, mains, maist, manes, manis, manse, mases, masse, masts, mates, matin, means, meant, meats, meets, mensa, mense, menta, mesas, mesne, metes, metis, miens, minae, minas, mines, mints, mises, mists, mites, names, neems, nemas, satem, seams, seems, seism, semen, semes, semis, simas, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tames, tamis, teams, teems, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amnesties produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, main, mass, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amen, amie, amin, amis, maes, main, mane, mani, mans, mass, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, meet, mesa, mess, meta, mete, mien, mina, mine, mint, mise, miss, mist, mite, name, neem, nema, nims, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, emes, emit, isms, item, tame, tams, team, teem, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amnesties turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ass, ate, eat, its, and man. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, eme, ems, ism, mae, man, mas, mat, men, mes, met, mis, nam, nim, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amnesties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in amnesties plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amnesties and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
amnesties is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for amnesties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
amnesties is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amnesties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amnesties and meatiness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amnesties earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in amnesties produce 417 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.