Hidden inside decimate sit decimate and medicate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decimate and medicate tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimate at 13 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in decimate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decimate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decimate and medicate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling decimate produces exactly one seven-letter word: mediate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decimate turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emetic and metica, 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, admit, aimed, and media. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decimate produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, came, date, dice, diet, dime, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, cami, emic, mace, mica, and mice — 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 decimate turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, aim, ate, cat, die, and eat. 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, id, it, and me. 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.
Swap a single tile in decimate 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.
decimate 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 two senses for decimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
decimate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decimate and medicate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimate 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 decimate produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.