Hidden inside ultimate sit mutilate and ultimate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mutilate and ultimate tie for the highest Scrabble score from ultimate at 10 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ultimate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ultimate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ultimate. For points, the strongest plays are mutilate and ultimate — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling ultimate turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amulet, muleta, mutate, telium, and ultima, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ultimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email, latte, metal, and title. For points, the strongest plays are email, ileum, maile, matte, metal, miaul, mulie, and ulema — 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 ultimate produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, lame, late, mail, male, mate, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are alme, alum, amie, emit, item, lame, lima, lime, luma, mail, male, malt, mate, matt, maul, maut, meal, meat, melt, meta, mile, milt, mite, mitt, mule, mute, mutt, tame, team, 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 ultimate turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, eat, let, lie, lit, and met. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, amu, elm, emu, lam, lum, mae, mat, mel, met, mil, mut, tam, and tum — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ultimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, 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.
Swap a single tile in ultimate 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.
ultimate 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for ultimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ultimate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ultimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mutilate and ultimate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ultimate 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 ultimate produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.