imitated needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imitated is the highest-scoring word from imitated, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in imitated — and it is imitated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitated produces exactly one seven-letter word: imitate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitated produces exactly one six-letter word: matted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, and media. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and media.
Rearranging the letters in imitated produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet and dime. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including dime, made and maid.
Unscrambling imitated turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in imitated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imitated 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.
imitated 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.
imitated is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imitated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imitated, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imitated 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 imitated produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 14 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.