nominated needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nominated is the highest-scoring word from nominated, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in nominated — and it is nominated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominate. For points, the strongest plays are demonian, dominant, and dominate — 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 nominated produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention. For points, the strongest plays are amidone, domaine, and mediant — 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 nominated turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donate, intend, maiden, nation, and tanned. For points, the strongest plays are aidmen, daemon, daimen, daimon, diatom, domain, domine, emodin, maiden, manned, mantid, median, medina, minted, moaned, moated, monied, and tandem — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, demon, meant, media, and named. For points, the strongest plays are admen, admin, admit, aimed, amend, amide, amido, demit, demoi, demon, denim, maned, mated, media, menad, mined, monad, monde, named, nomad, tamed, and timed — 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 nominated produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom, damn, date, diet, dime, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are amid, dame, damn, demo, dime, dome, idem, made, maid, mead, mend, mind, mode, and modi — 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 nominated turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, and, ant, ate, die, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dom, mad, med, mid, and mod — 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 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, do, id, and in. 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nominated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nominated 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.
nominated 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 nominated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
nominated is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nominated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nominated, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nominated 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 nominated produce 325 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, 44 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.