Hidden inside decimated sit decimated and medicated, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decimated and medicated tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimated at 15 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in decimated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decimated 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 decimated and medicated, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dedicate. For points, the strongest plays 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.
Rearranging the letters in decimated produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mediate, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimated turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decade, decide, and edited. For points, the strongest plays are addict, caddie, decade, decide, deiced, diadem, didact, emetic, mediad, 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, admit, aimed, dated, 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 decimated produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, came, date, dead, deed, dice, and died. 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 decimated turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, add, aid, aim, ate, cat, and dad. 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 decimated. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in decimated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decimated 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.
decimated 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.
decimated is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decimated and medicated, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimated 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 decimated produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.