Hidden inside cremation sit cremation and manticore, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 547 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cremation and manticore tie for the highest Scrabble score from cremation at 13 points. The top 10 of 547 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cremation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cremation 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 cremation and manticore, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction and romantic. For points, the strongest plays are coinmate, intercom, and romantic — each 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 cremation produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain and romance. For points, the strongest plays are carmine, centimo, ceriman, coremia, encomia, incomer, mantric, marconi, minorca, mortice, nematic, romance, and tonemic — 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 cremation turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, carton, erotic, income, mentor, notice, and remain. For points, the strongest plays are anemic, anomic, atomic, camion, carmen, cinema, comate, iceman, income, macron, manioc, mantic, matric, metica, metric, micron, and mincer — 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 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater, cream, crime, meant, minor, and nicer. For points, the strongest plays are amice, amnic, cameo, carom, comae, comer, comet, comte, cream, crime, macer, macon, macro, manic, micra, micro, mince, and monic — 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 cremation produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom, main, mate, mean, meat, and mice. For points, the strongest plays are acme, mace, marc, merc, mica, mice, came, cami, camo, coma, come, corm, cram, and emic — 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 cremation turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, air, ant, are, arm, and art. 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, me, and no. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cremation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cremation 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.
cremation 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for cremation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cremation is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cremation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cremation and manticore, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cremation 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 cremation produce 547 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.