Hidden inside coinmates sit coinmates and encomiast, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 645 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coinmates and encomiast tie for the highest Scrabble score from coinmates at 13 points. The top 10 of 645 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in coinmates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coinmates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coinmates and encomiast, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coinmates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amnestic, centimos, coinmate and 3 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in coinmates produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, incomes, notices, and section. For points, 18 words tie at 11 points, including incomes, amnesic and anosmic.
Unscrambling coinmates turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino and income. For points, 29 words tie at 10 points, including income, mascot and sitcom.
There are 173 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coinmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, cents and coast. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including comas, comes and acmes.
Rearranging the letters in coinmates produces 183 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims and amen. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including mice, scam and came.
Unscrambling coinmates turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coinmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in coinmates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in coinmates 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.
coinmates 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.
coinmates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coinmates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coinmates and encomiast, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coinmates 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 coinmates produce 645 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 173 five-letter words, 183 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.