teammates 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, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
teammates is the highest-scoring word from teammates, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in teammates — and it is teammates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teammates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stemmata and teammate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling teammates produces exactly one seven-letter word: metates. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling teammates turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate. For points, the strongest plays are emmets, mamees, and stemma — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teammates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats and meets. For points, the strongest plays are emmet, mamas, mamee, and memes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in teammates produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east and eats. For points, the strongest plays are mama, mams, meme, and mems — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling teammates turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and met. For points, the strongest plays are mam and mem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teammates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in teammates 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.
teammates 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 one sense for teammates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
teammates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teammates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is teammates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from teammates 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 teammates produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.