mentations needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 563 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mentations is the highest-scoring word from mentations, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 563 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in mentations — and it is mentations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mentations turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominates. For points, the strongest plays are antinomes, mentation, nominates, and ointments — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentions and nominate. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including mentions, nominate and amniotes.
Rearranging the letters in mentations produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mansion, mention and nations. For points, 29 words tie at 9 points, including mansion, mention and amnions.
Unscrambling mentations turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insane, nation, and tennis. For points, 45 words tie at 8 points, including aments, amines and aminos.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, items and mates. For points, 69 words tie at 7 points, including atoms, items and mates.
Rearranging the letters in mentations produces 153 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and ants. For points, 65 words tie at 6 points, including aims, amen and atom.
Unscrambling mentations turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, 27 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mentations plus one additional letter.
mentations 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 3-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 mentations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mentations is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mentations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mentations, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mentations 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 mentations produce 563 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 153 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.