imitating needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imitating is the highest-scoring word from imitating, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in imitating — and it is imitating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitating produces exactly one eight-letter word: mitigant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitating produces exactly one seven-letter word: matting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitating turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming and timing. For points, the strongest plays are aiming, mating, taming, and timing — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant. For points, the strongest play is gamin — 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 imitating produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, main, and mint. For points, the strongest play is magi — 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 imitating turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, man, nag, tag, tan, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in imitating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imitating 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.
imitating 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.
imitating is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imitating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imitating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imitating 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 imitating produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.