proximate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 326 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
proximate is the highest-scoring word from proximate, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 326 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in proximate — and it is proximate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proximate produces exactly one eight-letter word: expiator. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in proximate produces 6 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 mixtape and premixt, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proximate turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with permit and pirate. For points, the strongest play is premix — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proximate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with extra, mixer, opera, and prime. For points, 7 words tie at 14 points, including mixer, axiom and expat.
Rearranging the letters in proximate produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, mate and meat. For points, the strongest play is mpox — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proximate turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ape. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including max, mix and pax.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proximate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in proximate 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.
proximate 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 proximate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
proximate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proximate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is proximate, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from proximate 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 proximate produce 326 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.