Hidden inside sentimental sit entailments and sentimental, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 755 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entailments and sentimental tie for the highest Scrabble score from sentimental at 13 points. The top 10 of 755 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in sentimental: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sentimental itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are entailments and sentimental, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sentimental produces 6 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alinements, enlistment, entailment, instalment, and lineaments, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sentimental turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alinement, enamelist, estaminet, lineament, linemates, mantelets, melanites, mentalist, and sentiment, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sentimental. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitles and manliest. For points, the strongest plays are ailments, aliments, enamines, estimate, etamines, linemate, linesman, linesmen, maltiest, manliest, mannites, mantelet, mantlets, matinees, mealiest, meatiest, melanins, melanist, melanite, meltiest, metalise, metalist, miseaten, nestmate, smaltine, smaltite, talesmen, and teatimes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sentimental produces 79 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle, intense, meanest, neatest, and talents. For points, the strongest plays are ailment, aliment, elmiest, emetins, eminent, enamels, enamine, etamine, etamins, etatism, inmates, laments, lensman, lensmen, lineman, linemen, malines, mannite, mantels, mantles, mantlet, matiest, matinee, mattins, mealies, meanest, meanies, melanin, melenas, menials, metates, mettles, mittens, nemesia, seminal, smitten, steamie, tameins, teatime, and teleman — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sentimental turns up 136 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, emails, estate, insane, lamest, latest, and lattes. For points, the strongest plays are aments, amines, animes, elemis, emails, emetin, enamel, enemas, etamin, inmate, inseam, lament, lamest, lemans, limans, limens, mailes, maline, mantel, mantes, mantis, mantle, matins, mattes, mattin, mealie, meanie, measle, melena, menial, mensae, mensal, mental, mesial, mesian, metals, metate, mettle, misate, miseat, mitten, nanism, samiel, samite, samlet, santim, seamen, semina, simnel, smalti, stamen, tamein, tamest, tinman, tinmen, titman, and titmen — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 184 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sentimental. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lanes, latte, leans, lease, least, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are items, lames, leman, liman, limas, limen, limes, limns, maile, mails, mains, maist, males, malts, manes, manis, manse, mates, matin, matte, matts, meals, means, meant, meats, meets, melts, mensa, mense, menta, mesne, metal, metes, metis, miens, miles, milts, minae, minas, mines, mints, mites, mitts, almes, amens, ament, amies, amine, amins, anime, elemi, email, emits, enema, names, neems, nemas, salmi, satem, semen, slime, smalt, smelt, smile, smite, steam, stime, tames, tamis, teams, teems, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sentimental produces 189 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen, ants, lame, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aims, alme, alms, amen, amie, amin, amis, lame, lams, lima, lime, limn, maes, mail, main, male, malt, mane, mani, mans, mast, mate, mats, matt, meal, mean, meat, meet, mels, melt, mesa, meta, mete, mien, mile, mils, milt, mina, mine, mint, mise, mist, mite, mitt, name, neem, nema, nims, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, slam, slim, smit, stem, stim, elms, emes, emit, item, tame, tams, team, teem, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sentimental turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ate, eat, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, elm, eme, ems, ism, lam, mae, man, mas, mat, mel, men, mes, met, mil, mis, nam, nim, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sentimental. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
sentimental 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 4-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 sentimental. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sentimental is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sentimental unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entailments and sentimental, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sentimental 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 sentimental produce 755 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 6 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 37 eight-letter words, 79 seven-letter words, 136 six-letter words, 184 five-letter words, 189 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.