Hidden inside animated sit animated and diamante, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
animated and diamante tie for the highest Scrabble score from animated at 11 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in animated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and animated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animated. For points, the strongest plays are animated and diamante — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in animated produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate. For points, the strongest plays are mandate and mediant — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling animated turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maiden. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including maiden, aidman and aidmen.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and meant. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and media.
Rearranging the letters in animated produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and data. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling animated turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in animated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in animated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in animated 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.
animated 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 animated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
animated is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing animated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are animated and diamante, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from animated 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 animated produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.