Hidden inside magnates sit magentas, magnates, and nametags, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magentas, magnates, and nametags tie for the highest Scrabble score from magnates at 11 points. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in magnates: two come from rearranging its letters, and magnates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are magentas, magnates, and nametags, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in magnates produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnets and manages. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including magnets, manages and gateman.
Unscrambling magnates turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, magnet, and manage. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including magnet, manage and gamest.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magnates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, games and gates. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including games, agmas and gamas.
Rearranging the letters in magnates produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, amen and ants. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including game, agma and gama.
Unscrambling magnates turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magnates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in magnates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in magnates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
magnates 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 magnates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
magnates is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magnates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are magentas, magnates, and nametags, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from magnates 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 magnates produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.