Hidden inside medicates sit decimates and medicates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decimates and medicates tie for the highest Scrabble score from medicates at 14 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in medicates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and medicates 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 decimates and medicates, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medicates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decimate, medicate, and misacted, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in medicates produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steamed. For points, the strongest plays are emetics, meticas, and sematic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling medicates turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, ceased, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest play is medics — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted and admit. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in medicates produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including came, mice and scam.
Unscrambling medicates turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in medicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. 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 medicates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in medicates 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.
medicates 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 medicates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
medicates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing medicates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decimates and medicates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from medicates 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 medicates produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.