masticates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 336 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
masticates is the highest-scoring word from masticates, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 336 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in masticates — and it is masticates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling masticates turns up 2 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masticates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are casteism and catamite, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in masticates produces 28 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 camases, camisas, camises and 5 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling masticates turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attics, states, steams, and tastes. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including amices, camass and camisa.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in masticates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cases and casts. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including scams, acmes and amice.
Rearranging the letters in masticates produces 102 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 masticates turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ass. 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 masticates. 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.
masticates 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 masticates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
masticates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing masticates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is masticates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from masticates 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 masticates produce 336 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.