Hidden inside hibernates sit hibernates and inbreathes, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 835 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hibernates and inbreathes tie for the highest Scrabble score from hibernates at 15 points. The top 10 of 835 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in hibernates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hibernates 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 hibernates and inbreathes, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hibernates turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abhenries, hibernate, inbreathe, and thebaines, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hibernates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breathes. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including breathes, absinthe and banisher.
Rearranging the letters in hibernates produces 75 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beneath, breathe and breaths. For points, 12 words tie at 12 points, including beneath, breathe and breaths.
Unscrambling hibernates turns up 153 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, bathes and beaten. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including bathes, births and breath.
There are 231 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hibernates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, barns and bathe. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including bathe, baths and birth.
Rearranging the letters in hibernates produces 211 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including bath, baht and bash.
Unscrambling hibernates turns up 107 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, the strongest play is bah — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hibernates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in hibernates plus one additional letter.
hibernates 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for hibernates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
hibernates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hibernates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hibernates and inbreathes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hibernates 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 hibernates produce 835 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 75 seven-letter words, 153 six-letter words, 231 five-letter words, 211 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.