Hidden inside masticate sit catamites and masticate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 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.
catamites and masticate tie for the highest Scrabble score from masticate at 13 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in masticate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and masticate 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 catamites and masticate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling masticate produces exactly one eight-letter word: catamite. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in masticate produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meticas and sematic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling masticate turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attics. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including amices, camisa and camise.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masticate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, items and mates. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including acmes, amice and camas.
Rearranging the letters in masticate produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims and came. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including came, mice and scam.
Unscrambling masticate turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masticate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in masticate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in masticate 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.
masticate 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 two senses for masticate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
masticate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing masticate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are catamites and masticate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from masticate 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 masticate produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.