Hidden inside cremating sit centigram and cremating, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 475 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
centigram and cremating tie for the highest Scrabble score from cremating at 14 points. The top 10 of 475 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cremating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cremating 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 centigram and cremating, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catering, creating, and reacting. For points, the strongest plays are amercing, creaming, germanic, and magnetic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cremating produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, cigaret, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are gametic and grimace — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cremating turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, caring and eating. For points, the strongest play is macing — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and cater. For points, the strongest plays are gamic and magic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cremating produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, cage and came. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and mice.
Unscrambling cremating turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and aim. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cremating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cremating 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.
cremating 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.
cremating is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cremating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are centigram and cremating, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cremating 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 cremating produce 475 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.