Hidden inside animate sit amentia and animate, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amentia and animate tie for the highest Scrabble score from animate at 9 points. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in animate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and animate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate. For points, the strongest plays are amentia and animate — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling animate turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amenta, anemia, etamin and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including meant, amain and ament.
Rearranging the letters in animate produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, item and main. For points, 25 words tie at 6 points, including amen, item and main.
Unscrambling animate turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
14 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in animate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in animate and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
animate 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 seven senses for animate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
animate is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing animate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amentia and animate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from animate 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 animate produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.