Hidden inside formates sit foremast and formates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 370 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foremast and formates tie for the highest Scrabble score from formates at 13 points. The top 10 of 370 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in formates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and formates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are foremast and formates, 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 formates produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestro. For points, the strongest plays are foamers, formate, and formats — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling formates turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, forest, frames, master, and softer. For points, the strongest plays are femora, foamer, forams, format, formes, and frames — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, atoms, farms, fates, fatso, fears, and foams. For points, the strongest plays are fames, farms, foams, foram, forme, forms, and frame — 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 formates produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, atom, mate, meat, more, and most. For points, the strongest plays are fame, fams, farm, fems, foam, form, and from — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling formates turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are fam and fem — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in formates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, me, of, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in formates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
formates 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
formates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing formates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foremast and formates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from formates 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 formates produce 370 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.