cremates needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cremates is the highest-scoring word from cremates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cremates — and it is cremates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cremates produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creates. For points, the strongest plays are amerces, cermets, cremate, and racemes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cremates turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, creams and create. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including creams, scream and amerce.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts and cater. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including crams, cream and acmes.
Rearranging the letters in cremates produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arms and arts. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and scam.
Unscrambling cremates turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are cam and mac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in cremates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cremates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cremates 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 cremates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cremates is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cremates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cremates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cremates 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 cremates produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.