Hidden inside migrants sit migrants and smarting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
migrants and smarting tie for the highest Scrabble score from migrants at 11 points. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in migrants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and migrants 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 migrants and smarting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in migrants produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ratings and staring. For points, the strongest plays are armings, margins, marting, masting, matings, and migrant — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling migrants turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, grants, rating, string, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are arming, gamins, margin, mating, stigma, and taming — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migrants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, grant, mints, rains, rings, and saint. For points, the strongest plays are agism, gamin, grams, margs, and sigma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in migrants produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, ants, arms, arts, gain, and main. For points, the strongest plays are gams, gram, grim, magi, mags, marg, and migs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling migrants turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ant, arm, art, gas, and its. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migrants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in migrants 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.
migrants 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 two senses for migrants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
migrants is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing migrants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are migrants and smarting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from migrants 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 migrants produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.