Hidden inside nominates sit antinomes and nominates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antinomes and nominates tie for the highest Scrabble score from nominates at 11 points. The top 10 of 462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in nominates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nominates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominates. For points, the strongest plays are antinomes and nominates — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentions and nominate. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including mentions, nominate and amniotes.
Rearranging the letters in nominates produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mansion, mention, nations, and tension. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including mansion, mention and amnions.
Unscrambling nominates turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insane, nation, and tennis. For points, 36 words tie at 8 points, including aments, amines and aminos.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, items and mates. For points, 62 words tie at 7 points, including atoms, items and mates.
Rearranging the letters in nominates produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and ants. For points, 62 words tie at 6 points, including aims, amen and atom.
Unscrambling nominates turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, 27 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nominates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in nominates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nominates 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.
nominates 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 nominates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
nominates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nominates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antinomes and nominates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nominates 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 nominates produce 462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.