Hidden inside nominate sit antinome and nominate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antinome and nominate tie for the highest Scrabble score from nominate at 10 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in nominate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nominate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominate. For points, the strongest plays are antinome and nominate — 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 nominate produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention. For points, the strongest plays are amniote, mannite, mention, montane, and nonmeat — 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 nominate turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nation. For points, the strongest plays are amnion, anomie, etamin, inmate, manito, nomina, omenta, tamein, tinman, and tinmen — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, the strongest plays are ament, amine, amino, amnio, anime, matin, meant, menta, mento, minae, monie, monte, nomen, and toman — 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 nominate produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom, into, item, main, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are amen, amie, amin, atom, emit, item, main, mane, mani, mano, mate, mean, meat, meno, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mite, moan, moat, mote, name, nema, noma, nome, omen, omit, tame, team, time, and tome — 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 nominate turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, man, men, and met. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, emo, mae, man, mat, men, met, moa, moi, mon, mot, nam, nim, nom, oma, tam, and tom — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, me, and no. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — 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 nominate 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.
nominate 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 four senses for nominate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
nominate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nominate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antinome and nominate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nominate 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 nominate produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.