Hidden inside macerates sit macerates and racemates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 362 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
macerates and racemates tie for the highest Scrabble score from macerates at 13 points. The top 10 of 362 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in macerates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and macerates 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 macerates and racemates, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in macerates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are casemate, cremates, macerate, and racemate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in macerates produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cameras and creates. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including cameras, amerces and amesace.
Unscrambling macerates turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camera, caters and creams. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including camera, creams and scream.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in macerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares and carts. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including crams, cream and acmes.
Rearranging the letters in macerates produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, area and arms. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and scam.
Unscrambling macerates turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are cam and mac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in macerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in macerates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in macerates 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.
macerates 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 four senses for macerates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
macerates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing macerates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are macerates and racemates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from macerates 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 macerates produce 362 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.