Hidden inside germinates sit germinates and steamering, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
germinates and steamering tie for the highest Scrabble score from germinates at 13 points. The top 10 of 1168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in germinates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and germinates 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 germinates and steamering, 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 germinates turns up 15 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastering. For points, the strongest plays are emigrants, emigrates, geminates, germinate, magnesite, magnetise, mastering, regiments, reteaming, and streaming — 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 63 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in germinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, meetings, sergeant, steaming, and steering. For points, the strongest plays are emigrant, emigrate, gamester, garments, geminate, germiest, magister, mangiest, margents, meagrest, meetings, metering, migrants, migrates, mintages, misagent, ragtimes, regimens, regiment, reimages, remating, smarting, smearing, steaming, and sterigma — 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 germinates produces 160 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, entries, erasing, maestri, magnets, meanest, and meeting. For points, the strongest plays are armings, emigres, engrams, enigmas, gametes, gamiest, gamines, garment, gatemen, germane, germans, germens, germina, gisarme, imagers, magnets, maneges, mangers, mangier, margent, margins, marting, masting, matings, meeting, menages, metages, metring, migrant, migrate, mintage, mirages, ragtime, reaming, regimen, regimes, reimage, remiges, seaming, seeming, segment, sigmate, teaming, teeming, tegmina, and terming — 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 germinates turns up 254 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees, angers, armies, easier, easing, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, arming, emergs, emigre, engram, enigma, gamers, gamest, gamete, gamier, gamine, gamins, gasmen, german, germen, grimes, imager, images, magnet, maigre, manege, manger, manges, marges, margin, mating, meager, meagre, menage, merges, metage, meting, mirage, ragmen, regime, 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 292 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in germinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, saint, saner, semen, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are agism, sigma, emerg, gamer, games, gamin, germs, grams, grime, image, mages, mange, marge, margs, merge, and regma — 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 germinates produces 239 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, amen, ants, arms, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, gems, germ, gram, and grim — 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 germinates turns up 116 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, ant, are, arm, and art. 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in germinates. 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.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in germinates plus one additional letter.
germinates 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 three senses for germinates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
germinates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing germinates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are germinates and steamering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from germinates 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 germinates produce 1168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 15 nine-letter words, 63 eight-letter words, 160 seven-letter words, 254 six-letter words, 292 five-letter words, 239 four-letter words, 116 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.