intonates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 307 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intonates is the highest-scoring word from intonates, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 307 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in intonates — and it is intonates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intonates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enations, intonate, sonatine and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intonates produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nations, station, and tension. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including nations, station and tension.
Unscrambling intonates turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insane, nation, and tennis. For points, 39 words tie at 6 points, including insane, nation and tennis.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intonates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise and notes. For points, 72 words tie at 5 points, including nines, noise and notes.
Rearranging the letters in intonates produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east and eats. For points, 88 words tie at 4 points, including ants, east and eats.
Unscrambling intonates turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, 56 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ate and eat.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intonates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 24 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in intonates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intonates 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.
intonates 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 two senses for intonates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
intonates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intonates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intonates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intonates 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 intonates produce 307 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.