Hidden inside emulating sit emulating and glutamine, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 440 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emulating and glutamine tie for the highest Scrabble score from emulating at 12 points. The top 10 of 440 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in emulating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and emulating 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 emulating and glutamine, 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 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emulating. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gunmetal, ligament, metaling, multiage, tegminal, tegumina, and umangite, 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 emulating produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with melting. For points, the strongest plays are augment, geminal, gumline, legumin, malting, mauling, melting, mintage, mutagen, teaming, and tegmina — 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 emulating turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, guinea, magnet, mental, mingle, and minute. For points, the strongest plays are enigma, gamine, gimlet, gnetum, laming, legman, lingam, magnet, malign, mangel, mangle, mating, meting, milage, mingle, muling, muting, nutmeg, and taming — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emulating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien, angel, angle, email, giant, and guilt. For points, the strongest plays are algum, almug, gamin, gamut, gimel, gleam, glime, glume, image, and mange — 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 emulating produces 135 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, aunt, gain, game, gate, glue, and item. For points, the strongest plays are game, gaum, geum, glam, glim, glum, mage, magi, mega, and mung — 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 emulating turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, ant, ate, eat, gal, and get. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, gum, mag, meg, mig, and mug — 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emulating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in emulating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in emulating 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.
emulating 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
emulating is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emulating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emulating and glutamine, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from emulating 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 emulating produce 440 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 135 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.