imitates needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imitates is the highest-scoring word from imitates, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in imitates — and it is imitates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imitates produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amities, etatism, imitate, matiest, and mitiest, 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 imitates turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mattes, misate, miseat, samite, and tamest, 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates, meats, state, steam, taste, and teams. For points, the strongest plays are amies, emits, items, maist, mates, matte, matts, meats, metis, mites, mitis, mitts, satem, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in imitates produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, east, eats, item, mate, meat, and same. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amis, emit, item, maes, mast, mate, mats, matt, meat, mesa, meta, mise, mist, mite, mitt, same, seam, semi, sima, smit, stem, stim, tame, tams, team, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling imitates turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, eat, its, met, sat, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, ems, ism, mae, mas, mat, mes, met, mis, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. 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.
Swap a single tile in imitates 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.
imitates 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 three senses for imitates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
imitates is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imitates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imitates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imitates 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 imitates produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.