Hidden inside cremations sit cremations and manticores, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1463 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cremations and manticores tie for the highest Scrabble score from cremations at 14 points. The top 10 of 1463 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in cremations: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cremations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cremations and manticores, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cremations turns up 13 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reactions. For points, the strongest plays are coinmates, cremation, encomiast, intercoms, manticore, miscreant, narcotism, and romantics — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 63 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, reaction, romances, romantic, and scenario. For points, the strongest plays are acrotism, amnestic, carmines, centimos, centrism, ceramist, cerimans, coinmate, cremains, incomers, intercom, marconis, matrices, minorcas, mistrace, monastic, mortices, nematics, romances, romantic, scimetar, semantic, and sermonic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cremations produces 165 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, cartons, certain, coaster, incomes, maestri, and maestro. For points, the strongest plays are amnesic, anosmic, atomics, camions, carmine, centimo, ceriman, cinemas, comates, coremia, crimson, encomia, incomer, incomes, macrons, maniocs, mantric, marconi, masonic, matrics, mesonic, meticas, metrics, microns, mincers, minorca, mortice, narcism, nematic, osmatic, romance, sematic, somatic, and tonemic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cremations turns up 313 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton, casino, caters, creams, crimes, action, and actors. For points, the strongest plays are cameos, camion, camise, carmen, caroms, cinema, comate, comers, comets, comsat, comtes, creams, crimes, amices, anemic, anomic, atomic, iceman, income, macers, macons, macron, macros, manics, manioc, mantic, mascon, mascot, mastic, matric, metica, metric, micron, micros, mincer, minces, misact, mosaic, racism, satcom, scream, sitcom, socman, and socmen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 406 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, atoms, cares, carts, cater, cents, and coast. For points, the strongest plays are acmes, amice, amnic, cameo, cames, camis, camos, carom, comae, comas, comer, comes, comet, comte, corms, crams, cream, crime, macer, maces, macon, macro, manic, marcs, mercs, mesic, micas, micra, micro, mince, monic, osmic, scram, scrim, and emics — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cremations produces 323 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims, airs, amen, ants, arms, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, cami, camo, cams, coma, come, corm, cram, emic, mace, macs, marc, merc, mica, mice, mics, mocs, and scam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cremations turns up 143 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.
There are 35 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cremations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cremations plus one additional letter.
cremations 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 cremations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cremations is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cremations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cremations and manticores, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cremations 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 cremations produce 1463 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 13 nine-letter words, 63 eight-letter words, 165 seven-letter words, 313 six-letter words, 406 five-letter words, 323 four-letter words, 143 three-letter words and 35 two-letter words.