Hidden inside emendation sit denominate and emendation, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 401 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denominate and emendation tie for the highest Scrabble score from emendation at 13 points. The top 10 of 401 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in emendation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emendation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denominate and emendation, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emendation turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentioned and nominated. For points, the strongest plays are menadione, mentioned, and nominated — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emendation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominate. For points, the strongest plays are dementia, demonian, dominant, dominate, and nematode — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emendation produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention. For points, the strongest plays are amidone, dementi, demeton, domaine, mediant, mediate, and teendom — each 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 emendation turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donate, intend, maiden, nation, and tanned. For points, the strongest plays are aidmen, daemon, daimen, daimon, demean, dement, demote, diatom, domain, domine, emodin, emoted, itemed, maiden, manned, mantid, meated, mediae, median, medina, minted, moaned, moated, monied, oedema, omened, tandem, and teamed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emendation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, demon, eaten, meant, media, and named. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admen, admin, admit, aimed, amend, amide, amido, demit, demoi, demon, denim, edema, emend, maned, mated, media, menad, meted, mined, monad, monde, named, nomad, tamed, and timed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emendation produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom, damn, date, diet, dime, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, damn, deem, deme, demo, dime, dome, idem, made, maid, mead, meed, mend, mind, mode, and modi — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emendation turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, and, ant, ate, die, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dom, mad, med, mid, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emendation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, do, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in emendation plus one additional letter.
emendation 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 one sense for emendation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
emendation is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emendation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denominate and emendation, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emendation 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 emendation produce 401 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.