Hidden inside emendations sit denominates and emendations, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1008 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in emendations: one come from rearranging its letters, and emendations 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 denominates and emendations, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emendations produces 3 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 denominate, emendation, and menadiones, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emendations turns up 17 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentioned, nominated, and nominates. For points, the strongest plays are amnestied, dementias, dominants, dominates, menadione, mentioned, misatoned, moistened, monetised, nematodes, nominated, and staminode — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 51 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emendations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentions and nominate. For points, the strongest plays are amidones, atomised, daemones, daimones, dementia, dementis, demetons, demonian, demonise, demonist, domaines, dominant, dominate, mediants, mediates, nematode, saintdom, sediment, sidemeat, stamened, and teendoms — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emendations produces 118 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates, instead, intends, intense, maidens, mansion, and meanest. For points, the strongest plays are amidone, daemons, daimons, damnest, demeans, dementi, dements, demeton, demotes, diastem, diatoms, distome, domaine, domains, domines, emodins, endmost, maidens, mantids, masoned, mastoid, medians, mediant, mediate, medinas, mindset, misdate, misdone, mistend, modiste, monades, oedemas, sandmen, seedman, sideman, sidemen, steamed, tandems, and teendom — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emendations turns up 178 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, demons, denies, donate, insane, intend, and maiden. For points, the strongest plays are adeems, admins, admits, aidmen, amends, amides, amidst, daemon, daimen, daimon, damson, demast, demean, dement, demies, demise, demist, demits, demons, demote, denims, desman, diatom, domain, domine, edemas, emends, emodin, emoted, itemed, maiden, manned, mantid, masted, meated, mediae, median, medias, medina, menads, mensed, minted, misted, moaned, moated, modest, monads, mondes, monied, nomads, oedema, omened, seamed, tandem, and teamed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 245 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emendations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aside, atoms, damns, dates, and demon. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admen, admin, admit, aimed, amend, amide, amido, amids, dames, damns, deems, deism, demes, demit, demoi, demon, demos, denim, dimes, disme, domes, edema, emend, maids, maned, mated, meads, media, meeds, menad, mends, meted, midst, minds, mined, misdo, modes, monad, monde, named, nomad, tamed, and timed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in emendations produces 239 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, amen, ants, atom, made, and maid. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, meed, mend, mids, mind, mode, modi, mods, dame, damn, dams, deem, deme, demo, dime, dims, dome, doms, and idem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling emendations turns up 117 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, and, ant, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, dom, mad, med, mid, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emendations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, at, do, and id. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
If you only take one play from this page, make it denominates and emendations — at 14 points in Scrabble, nothing else built from emendations pays better.
Hidden inside emendations are 1008 valid words in total. Broken down by length: 2 eleven-letter words, 3 ten-letter words, 17 nine-letter words, 51 eight-letter words, 118 seven-letter words, 178 six-letter words, 245 five-letter words, 239 four-letter words, 117 three-letter words and 38 two-letter words.
Under the hood, UnscrambleX runs emendations against full game dictionaries, keeps only the arrangements that are legal to play, and ranks what survives by score — which is how denominates and emendations end up at the top of your results. The same engine powers checks for Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Word Jumble, so a word shown here is a word you can actually put on the board.
Every rack tells a story, and emendations is no exception. Once the letters come apart, two paths open up on the board.
You can chase the points with denominates, or play it safe with a quick low-tile drop like ae and ai when the board leaves you no room.
That gap matters: the weakest play here earns 2 points while the strongest reaches 14, so the same letters can swing an entire turn depending on where and how they land.
UnscrambleX lays out the full spread so you can weigh a big score against board control before committing — and along the way you'll bump into words you didn't know were words.
Treat the results list as a practice drill, not just an answer key. Cover it, shuffle emendations in your head, and count how many of the 1008 words you can spot before peeking.
Most players catch the obvious ones like denominates and emendations quickly — it's the short survivors that slip past unnoticed, and those misses are the useful part.
Run the same drill on a few racks a day and the letter patterns start jumping out on their own, no unscrambler needed.
You collect words you'd never look up. Nobody opens a dictionary hunting for ae — but once it turns up in a results list, it's yours to play forever.
Spelling stops being guesswork: rebuilding denominates from loose tiles forces you to commit to a letter order and get corrected instantly, a faster feedback loop than any spelling drill. And with plays from emendations worth anywhere between 2 and 14 points, every turn doubles as a small economics problem — take the points now, or hold the flexible tiles for a better board.
Words you've physically assembled also stick better than words you've only read, which is exactly what timed formats punish you for not having.