intimate 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, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intimate is the highest-scoring word from intimate, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in intimate — and it is intimate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intimate 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 words are imitate and intimae, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling intimate turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are etamin, inmate, intima, intime, mattin, mitten, tamein, titman, and titmen, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, the strongest plays are ament, amine, anime, animi, imine, matin, matte, meant, menta, and minae — 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 intimate produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, item, main, mate, mean, meat, and mine. For points, the strongest plays are amen, amie, amin, emit, item, main, mane, mani, mate, matt, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mini, mint, mite, mitt, name, nema, tame, team, and time — 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 intimate turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, man, men, and met. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, mae, man, mat, men, met, nam, nim, and tam — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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.
Swap a single tile in intimate 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.
intimate 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 eleven senses for intimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
intimate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intimate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intimate 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 intimate produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.