Hidden inside meditate sit admittee and meditate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
admittee and meditate tie for the highest Scrabble score from meditate at 11 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in meditate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and meditate 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 admittee and meditate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in meditate produces 3 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 emitted and mediate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling meditate turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are itemed, matted, meated and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meditate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, and media. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and media.
Rearranging the letters in meditate produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet and dime. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including dime, made and maid.
Unscrambling meditate turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in meditate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in meditate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in meditate 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.
meditate 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 1-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 meditate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
meditate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing meditate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are admittee and meditate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from meditate 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 meditate produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.