effeminate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
effeminate is the highest-scoring word from effeminate, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in effeminate — and it is effeminate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in effeminate produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: fifteen, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling effeminate turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are affine and effete, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in effeminate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten and meant. For points, the strongest plays are faint and feint — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in effeminate produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, fame and fate. For points, the strongest play is miff — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling effeminate turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aff, eff, and iff — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in effeminate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in effeminate plus one additional letter.
effeminate 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 one sense for effeminate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
effeminate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing effeminate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is effeminate, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from effeminate 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 effeminate produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.