Hidden inside lamate sit malate, meatal, and tamale, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LAMATE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MALATE, MEATAL and TAMALE.
malate, meatal, and tamale tie for the highest Scrabble score from lamate at 8 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling lamate turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are malate, meatal, and tamale, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lamate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with metal. For points, the strongest plays are metal and tamal — 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 lamate produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, late, male, mate, meal, meat, and melt. For points, the strongest plays are alma, alme, atma, lama, lame, male, malt, mate, meal, meat, melt, meta, tame, and team — 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 lamate turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, let, met, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ama, elm, lam, mae, mat, mel, met, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lamate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lamate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lamate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are malate, meatal, and tamale, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lamate 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 lamate produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.