Hidden inside animates sit amentias and animates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amentias and animates tie for the highest Scrabble score from animates at 10 points. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in animates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and animates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animates. For points, the strongest plays are amentias and animates — 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 animates produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate. For points, the strongest plays are amentia, amnesia, anemias, animate, etamins, inmates, namaste, stamina, and tameins — 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 animates turns up 31 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, aments, amines, anemia, animas, animes, atmans, etamin, inmate, inseam, manats, manias, mantas, mantes, mantis, matins, mesian, misate, miseat, samite, santim, seaman, semina, stamen, and tamein, 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates, means, meant, meats, mints, and names. For points, the strongest plays are amain, amens, ament, amias, amies, amine, amins, amnia, anima, anime, atman, atmas, emits, items, mains, maist, manas, manat, manes, mania, manis, manse, manta, mates, matin, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, metis, miens, minae, minas, mines, mints, mites, names, nemas, satem, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, 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 animates produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, east, eats, item, and main. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amas, amen, amia, amie, amin, amis, atma, emit, item, maes, main, mana, mane, mani, mans, masa, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, mesa, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mise, mist, mite, name, nema, nims, same, seam, semi, sima, smit, stem, stim, tame, tams, team, 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 animates turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, its, man, and men. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animates. 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.
Swap a single tile in animates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
animates 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 animates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
animates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing animates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amentias and animates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from animates 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 animates produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.