imitator 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, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imitator is the highest-scoring word from imitator, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in imitator — and it is imitator itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitator produces exactly one seven-letter word: tritoma. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imitator produces exactly one six-letter word: moirai. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitator. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amort, amrit, and moira, 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 imitator produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, riot, and trim. For points, the strongest plays are amir, atom, mair, mart, matt, miri, mitt, moat, mora, mort, mott, omit, rami, roam, tram, and trim — 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 imitator turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, arm, art, rat, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, mar, mat, mir, moa, moi, mor, mot, oma, ram, rim, rom, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imitator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, or, and to. 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.
Swap a single tile in imitator 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.
imitator 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 two senses for imitator. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
imitator is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imitator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imitator, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imitator 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 imitator produce 93 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, 9 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.