Hidden inside marinates sit animaters and marinates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 627 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
animaters and marinates tie for the highest Scrabble score from marinates at 11 points. The top 10 of 627 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in marinates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marinates 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 animaters and marinates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animates. For points, the strongest plays are amentias, amirates, animater, animates, marinate, martians, minarets, raiments, sarmenta, and tamarins — 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 marinates produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate, maestri, nastier, remains, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are amentia, amirate, amnesia, amritas, anemias, animate, etamins, imarets, inmates, maestri, mantras, marinas, marines, martens, martian, martins, minaret, minster, minters, misrate, namaste, raiment, ramenta, remains, remints, sarment, seminar, smarten, smartie, stamina, tamarin, tamaris, and tameins — 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 marinates turns up 111 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, master, remain, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, airman, airmen, amenta, aments, amines, amrita, amrits, anemia, animas, animes, arames, armets, armies, atmans, etamin, imaret, inarms, inmate, inseam, manats, manias, mantas, mantes, mantis, mantra, marina, marine, marten, martin, master, maters, matier, matins, matres, merits, mesian, miners, minter, misate, miseat, mister, miters, mitres, namers, ramate, ramens, ramets, ramies, ramins, remain, remans, remint, remits, samier, samite, santim, seaman, semina, smiter, stamen, stream, tamari, tamein, tamers, and timers — 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 182 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, earns, items, mates, means, meant, and meats. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amain, amens, ament, amias, amies, amine, amins, amirs, amnia, amrit, anima, anime, arame, armet, atman, atmas, emirs, emits, inarm, items, maars, mains, mairs, maist, manas, manat, manes, mania, manis, manse, manta, maras, mares, maria, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, matin, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, merit, metis, miens, minae, minas, miner, mines, mints, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, namer, names, nemas, ramen, ramet, ramie, ramin, reams, reman, remit, rimes, satem, simar, smart, smear, smite, steam, stime, tamer, tames, tamis, teams, terms, timer, times, trams, trems, and trims — 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 marinates produces 158 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, ants, area, arms, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amas, amen, amia, amie, amin, amir, amis, arms, atma, maar, maes, main, mair, mana, mane, mani, mans, mara, mare, mars, mart, masa, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, mesa, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, name, nema, nims, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, sima, smit, stem, stim, emir, emit, item, tame, tams, 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 marinates turns up 82 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, ems, ism, mae, man, mar, mas, mat, men, mes, met, mir, mis, nam, nim, ram, rem, rim, sim, 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in marinates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marinates 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.
marinates 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 marinates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
marinates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marinates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are animaters and marinates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marinates 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 marinates produce 627 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 111 six-letter words, 182 five-letter words, 158 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.