imitative needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imitative is the highest-scoring word from imitative, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in imitative — and it is imitative itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imitative produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vitiate, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitative produces exactly one six-letter word: vittae. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitative. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mavie, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imitative produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mate and meat. For points, the strongest play is vita — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitative turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate and eat. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in imitative plus one additional letter.
imitative 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 three senses for imitative. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
imitative is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imitative unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imitative, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imitative 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 imitative produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.