automates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 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.
automates is the highest-scoring word from automates, worth 11 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 automates — and it is automates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are automate and automats, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in automates produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are automat, mutates, stomata, and stomate, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling automates turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statue. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including mattes, meatus and motets.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, atoms and autos. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including amuse, atoms and mates.
Rearranging the letters in automates produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, auto and east. For points, 45 words tie at 6 points, including atom, mate and meat.
Unscrambling automates turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and met. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including met, ama and amu.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in automates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in automates 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.
automates 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 one sense for automates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
automates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing automates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is automates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from automates 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 automates 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, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.