criminates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 898 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
criminates is the highest-scoring word from criminates, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 898 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in criminates — and it is criminates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling criminates turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anticrime, antimeric, armistice, cretinism, criminate, and miscreant, 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 43 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criminates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with martinis and minister. For points, the strongest plays are actinism, amnestic, carmines, casimire, centrism, ceramist, cerimans, cremains, creminis, matrices, meristic, meticais, minciest, minicars, mistrace, nematics, scimetar, scimitar, scimiter, semantic, and trisemic — 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 criminates produces 99 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, maestri, martini, nastier, remains, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are amnesic, carmine, ceriman, cinemas, cremini, crimine, mantric, matrics, menisci, meticas, metrics, mincers, mincier, minicar, miscite, narcism, nematic, sematic, and trismic — 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 criminates turns up 177 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, caters, cities, creams, crimes, master, and nicest. For points, the strongest plays are amices, aminic, anemic, camise, carmen, cinema, creams, crimes, iceman, macers, manics, mantic, mastic, matric, metica, metric, mincer, minces, misact, racism, and scream — 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 245 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criminates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, cater, cents, crams, cream, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are acmes, amice, amici, amnic, cames, camis, crams, cream, crime, emics, macer, maces, manic, marcs, mercs, mesic, micas, micra, mince, scram, and scrim — 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 criminates produces 206 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, mace, macs, marc, merc, mica, mice, mics, scam, came, cami, cams, 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 criminates 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, and mic — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criminates. 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, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
7 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in criminates plus one additional letter.
criminates 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 two senses for criminates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
criminates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing criminates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is criminates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from criminates 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 criminates produce 898 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 43 eight-letter words, 99 seven-letter words, 177 six-letter words, 245 five-letter words, 206 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.