amputates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amputates is the highest-scoring word from amputates, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in amputates — and it is amputates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amputates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amputate and tapetums, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amputates produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tapetum, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amputates turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statue and tempts. For points, the strongest plays are septum and tempts — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amputates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, mates, meats, pasta, pause, setup, and stamp. For points, the strongest plays are pumas, spume, stamp, stump, tamps, temps, tempt, and tumps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amputates produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, maps, mate, meat, and must. For points, the strongest plays are amps, maps, pams, puma, samp, spam, sump, tamp, temp, tump, and umps — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amputates turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, map, met, pea, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, pam, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amputates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, me, um, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mu, pa, pe, um, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in amputates 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.
amputates 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for amputates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
amputates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amputates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is amputates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from amputates 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 amputates produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.