Hidden inside animals sit animals, laminas, and manilas, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
animals, laminas, and manilas tie for the highest Scrabble score from animals at 9 points. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in animals: two come from rearranging its letters, and animals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals. For points, the strongest plays are animals, laminas, and manilas — 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 animals turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal. For points, the strongest plays are animal, animas, lamias, lamina, limans, manias, manila, and salami — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mails and nails. For points, the strongest plays are almas, amain, amias, amins, amnia, anima, lamas, lamia, liman, limas, limns, mails, mains, manas, mania, manis, minas, and salmi — 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 animals produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, mail, main, nail, sail, slam, and slim. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alma, alms, amas, amia, amin, amis, lama, lams, lima, limn, mail, main, mana, mani, mans, masa, mils, mina, nims, sima, slam, and slim — 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 animals turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, man, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, ism, lam, man, mas, mil, mis, nam, nim, and sim — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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 animals 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.
animals 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 two senses for animals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
animals is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing animals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are animals, laminas, and manilas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from animals 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 animals produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.