Hidden inside migraines sit imaginers and migraines, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 433 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imaginers and migraines tie for the highest Scrabble score from migraines at 12 points. The top 10 of 433 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in migraines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and migraines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imaginers and migraines, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migraines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imagines. For points, the strongest plays are imaginer, imagines, migraine, remising, and smearing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in migraines produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, imagine, raising, remains, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are armings, engrams, enigmas, gamines, germans, germina, gisarme, imagers, imagine, mangers, mangier, margins, mingier, mirages, reaming, and seaming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling migraines turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, airing, angers, armies, easing, images, and raisin. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, aiming, arming, engram, enigma, gamers, gamier, gamine, gamins, gasmen, german, grimes, imager, images, maigre, manger, manges, marges, margin, mirage, miring, ragmen, and riming — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migraines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns, gains, games, genii, germs, and image. For points, the strongest plays are agism, gamer, games, gamin, germs, grams, grime, image, mages, mange, marge, margs, regma, and sigma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in migraines produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, amen, arms, main, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, gems, germ, gram, and grim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling migraines turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migraines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, 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.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in migraines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in migraines 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.
migraines 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for migraines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
migraines is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing migraines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imaginers and migraines, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from migraines 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 migraines produce 433 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.