militates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 301 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
militates is the highest-scoring word from militates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 301 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in militates — and it is militates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imitates, maltiest, metalist, militate, miltiest, mistitle, and smaltite, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in militates produces 10 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 amities, elitism, etatism, imitate, limiest, limites, matiest, and mitiest, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling militates turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails, lamest, latest, lattes, limits, metals, and titles. For points, the strongest plays are emails, lamest, limits, mailes, mattes, mesial, metals, misate, miseat, mislie, mislit, samiel, samite, samlet, simile, smalti, and tamest — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, items, latte, least, limit, and mails. For points, the strongest plays are almes, amies, email, emits, items, lames, limas, limes, limit, maile, mails, maist, males, malts, mates, matte, matts, meals, meats, melts, metal, metis, miles, milia, milts, mites, mitis, mitts, salmi, satem, slime, smalt, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in militates produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame, last, late, lets, lies, and list. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amie, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, maes, mail, male, malt, mast, mate, mats, matt, meal, meat, mels, melt, mesa, meta, mile, mils, milt, mise, mist, mite, mitt, same, seam, semi, sima, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emit, item, tame, tams, team, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling militates turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, eat, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, ems, ism, lam, mae, mas, mat, mel, mes, met, mil, mis, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in militates. 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 militates 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.
militates 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 one sense for militates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
militates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing militates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is militates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from militates 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 militates produce 301 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.