Hidden inside marinate sit animater and marinate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
animater and marinate tie for the highest Scrabble score from marinate at 10 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in marinate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marinate 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 animater and marinate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in marinate produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate. For points, the strongest plays are amentia, amirate, animate, martian, minaret, raiment, ramenta, and tamarin — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling marinate turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remain. For points, the strongest plays are airman, airmen, amenta, amrita, anemia, etamin, imaret, inmate, mantra, marina, marine, marten, martin, matier, minter, ramate, remain, remint, tamari, and tamein — 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 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marinate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant and train. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amain, ament, amine, amnia, amrit, anima, anime, arame, armet, atman, inarm, manat, mania, manta, maria, mater, matin, meant, menta, merit, minae, miner, miter, mitre, namer, ramen, ramet, ramie, ramin, reman, remit, tamer, and timer — 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 marinate produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area, earn, item, main, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are amen, amia, amie, amin, amir, atma, emir, emit, item, maar, main, mair, mana, mane, mani, mara, mare, mart, mate, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mire, mite, name, nema, rami, ream, rime, tame, team, term, time, tram, trem, and trim — 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 marinate turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ant, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ama, ami, arm, mae, man, mar, mat, men, met, mir, nam, nim, ram, rem, rim, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marinate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, 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.
Swap a single tile in marinate 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.
marinate 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 one sense for marinate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
marinate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marinate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are animater and marinate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marinate 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 marinate produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.