Hidden inside atone sit atone and oaten, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
atone and oaten tie for the highest Scrabble score from atone at 5 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in atone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and atone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atone and oaten, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling atone turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, 18 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ate and eat.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in atone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and no. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and no.
Swap a single tile in atone and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
atone 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 1-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 atone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
atone is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing atone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are atone and oaten, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from atone 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 atone produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.