Hidden inside decimates sit decimates and medicates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decimates and medicates tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimates at 14 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in decimates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decimates 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 decimates and medicates, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decimate, medicate, and misacted, 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 decimates produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steamed. For points, the strongest plays are emetics, meticas, and sematic — 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 decimates turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, ceased, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest play is medics — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, admit, aimed, aside, cease, and dates. 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 decimates produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, aims, came, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, cami, cams, emic, mace, macs, mica, mice, mics, and scam — 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 decimates turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, aim, ate, cat, and die. 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, at, id, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in decimates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decimates 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.
decimates 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 decimates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
decimates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decimates and medicates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimates 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 decimates produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.