Hidden inside intimacy sit intimacy and minacity, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intimacy and minacity tie for the highest Scrabble score from intimacy at 15 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in intimacy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intimacy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intimacy. For points, the strongest plays are intimacy and minacity — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intimacy produces exactly one seven-letter word: aminity. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intimacy. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mincy, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intimacy produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, main and many. For points, the strongest play is cyma — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intimacy turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ant. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intimacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in intimacy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intimacy 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.
intimacy 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 intimacy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
intimacy is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intimacy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intimacy and minacity, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intimacy 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 intimacy produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.