imitation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imitation is the highest-scoring word from imitation, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in imitation — and it is imitation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitation 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 intima, manito, mattin, and titman, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitation. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amino, amnio, animi, imino, matin, and toman, 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 imitation produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, into, main, and mint. For points, the strongest plays are amin, atom, main, mani, mano, matt, mina, mini, mint, mitt, moan, moat, mott, noma, and omit — 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 imitation turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, man, not, tan, tin, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, man, mat, moa, moi, mon, mot, nam, nim, nom, oma, tam, and tom — 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 imitation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, and om — 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 imitation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imitation 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.
imitation 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for imitation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
imitation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imitation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imitation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imitation 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 imitation produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.