Hidden inside intoxicate sit excitation and intoxicate, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
excitation and intoxicate tie for the highest Scrabble score from intoxicate at 19 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in intoxicate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intoxicate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are excitation and intoxicate, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intoxicate produces exactly one nine-letter word: antitoxic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intoxicate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exaction, excitant, and toxicant, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intoxicate produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with context. For points, 6 words tie at 16 points, including context, exciton and exotica.
Unscrambling intoxicate turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, exotic, and notice. For points, 5 words tie at 15 points, including exotic, anoxic and axenic.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intoxicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, exact, ocean, and toxic. For points, the strongest plays are coxae, exact, toxic, and xenic — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intoxicate produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coat and coin. For points, the strongest plays are coax, coxa, and oxic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intoxicate turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ate. For points, the strongest play is cox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intoxicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in intoxicate plus one additional letter.
intoxicate 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 intoxicate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
intoxicate is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intoxicate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are excitation and intoxicate, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intoxicate 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 intoxicate produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.