collimate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 275 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
collimate is the highest-scoring word from collimate, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 275 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in collimate — and it is collimate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collimate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is metallic, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in collimate produces 9 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 calomel, climate, metical, micella, and telomic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling collimate turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locate. For points, the strongest plays are atomic, camlet, comate, malice, metica, and micell — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camel, claim, email, local, metal, and motel. For points, the strongest plays are amice, camel, cameo, celom, claim, clime, comae, comal, comet, comte, macle, malic, and melic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in collimate produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, call, calm, came, cell, coat, and cola. For points, the strongest plays are acme, calm, came, cami, camo, clam, coma, come, emic, mace, mica, and mice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling collimate turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, all, ate, cat, eat, and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mic, and moc — each worth 7 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 collimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, me, and to. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in collimate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in collimate 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.
collimate 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 4-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 collimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
collimate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing collimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is collimate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from collimate 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 collimate produce 275 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.