emigrates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 565 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emigrates is the highest-scoring word from emigrates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 565 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in emigrates — and it is emigrates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emigrates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emigrate, gamester, germiest and 6 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emigrates produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including emigres, gametes and gamiest.
Unscrambling emigrates turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, armies and easier. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including images, merges and ageism.
There are 154 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emigrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, erase and games. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including games, germs and image.
Rearranging the letters in emigrates produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and airs. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including game, germ and mage.
Unscrambling emigrates turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emigrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in emigrates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emigrates 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.
emigrates 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 emigrates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
emigrates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emigrates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emigrates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emigrates 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 emigrates produce 565 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 12 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 154 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.