sublimate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 552 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sublimate is the highest-scoring word from sublimate, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 552 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sublimate — and it is sublimate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sublimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simulate. For points, the strongest plays are balmiest, bimetals, bumelias, lambiest, and timbales — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sublimate produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stumble. For points, the strongest plays are ableism, bimetal, bumelia, lambies, limbate, mutable, stumble, subitem, sublime, timbale, timbals, and tumbles — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sublimate turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, albums, blames, bluest, emails, lamest, and metals. For points, the strongest plays are albums, ambits, ambles, bemist, besmut, blames, blumes, iambus, imbues, labium, lambie, limbas, limbus, submit, timbal, tumble, umbels, and umbles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sublimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, aisle, album, amuse, bails, baits, and beams. For points, the strongest plays are album, ambit, amble, balms, beams, bemas, bimas, blame, blams, blume, iambs, imbue, lambs, limba, limbs, mabes, sebum, and umbel — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sublimate produces 188 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, aims, bail, bait, base, bats, and beam. For points, the strongest plays are balm, bams, beam, bema, bima, blam, lamb, limb, mabe, mibs, bums, and iamb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sublimate turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, bam, bat, bet, bit, and bum. For points, the strongest plays are bam, bum, and mib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sublimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, be, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, em, ma, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sublimate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sublimate 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.
sublimate 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 seven senses for sublimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sublimate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sublimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sublimate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sublimate 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 sublimate produce 552 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 188 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.