Hidden inside geminates sit geminates, magnesite, and magnetise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 487 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
geminates, magnesite, and magnetise tie for the highest Scrabble score from geminates at 12 points. The top 10 of 487 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in geminates: two come from rearranging its letters, and geminates 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 geminates, magnesite, and magnetise, 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 geminates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meetings and steaming. For points, the strongest plays are geminate, mangiest, meetings, mintages, misagent, and steaming — 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 geminates produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnets, meanest, meeting, seating, seeming, and teasing. For points, the strongest plays are enigmas, gametes, gamiest, gamines, gatemen, magnets, maneges, masting, matings, meeting, menages, metages, mintage, seaming, seeming, segment, sigmate, teaming, teeming, 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 geminates turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing, eating, giants, images, magnet, and seeing. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, enigma, gamest, gamete, gamine, gamins, gasmen, images, magnet, manege, manges, mating, menage, metage, meting, stigma, taming, and tegmen — 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 115 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in geminates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, eaten, gains, games, gates, genes, and giant. For points, the strongest plays are agism, games, gamin, image, mages, mange, and sigma — 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 geminates produces 141 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, amen, ants, main, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, and gems — 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 geminates turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, ant, ate, eat, gas, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in geminates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in geminates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in geminates 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.
geminates 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 five senses for geminates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
geminates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing geminates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are geminates, magnesite, and magnetise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from geminates 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 geminates produce 487 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 115 five-letter words, 141 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.