Hidden inside migrates sit magister, migrates, ragtimes and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 422 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magister, migrates, ragtimes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from migrates at 11 points. The top 10 of 422 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in migrates: three come from rearranging its letters, and migrates 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 magister, migrates, ragtimes, and sterigma, 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 migrates produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri. For points, the strongest plays are gamiest, gisarme, imagers, migrate, mirages, ragtime, and sigmate — 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 migrates turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, images, master, and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, gamers, gamest, gamier, grimes, imager, images, maigre, marges, mirage, and stigma — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games, gates, germs, great, image, items, and mates. For points, the strongest plays are agism, gamer, games, germs, grams, grime, image, mages, marge, margs, regma, 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 migrates produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, arms, arts, mate, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, gems, germ, gram, and grim — 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 migrates turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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 migrates 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.
migrates 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 migrates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
migrates is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing migrates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are magister, migrates, ragtimes, and sterigma, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from migrates 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 migrates produce 422 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.