personate 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, 653 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
personate is the highest-scoring word from personate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 653 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in personate — and it is personate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operates. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including operates, operants and personae.
Rearranging the letters in personate produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, nearest and openers. For points, 36 words tie at 9 points, including openers, operate and parents.
Unscrambling personate turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters and neater. For points, 62 words tie at 8 points, including opener, operas and parent.
There are 188 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, opens and opera. For points, 96 words tie at 7 points, including opens, opera and pants.
Rearranging the letters in personate produces 186 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and arts. For points, 81 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and nope.
Unscrambling personate turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and are. For points, 30 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in personate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in personate 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.
personate 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 personate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
personate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing personate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is personate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from personate 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 personate produce 653 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 188 five-letter words, 186 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.