222 words come out when you unscramble NAMESAKES, starting with NAMESAKES itself: 15 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, NAMESAKE and KAMSEENS lead with 14 points. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from NAMESAKES split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 4 with 7, 33 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 47 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Of the 33 6-letter words you get when you unscramble NAMESAKES, 7 score 12 points, the group's best. SESAME, SNAKES and SEAMAN are the ones most people know.
Among 60 5-letter words from NAMESAKES, the top score is 11, reached by 10. MEANS, MAKES and NAMES are the familiar ones.
6 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NAMESAKES tie at 10 points; none scores more. NAME, MAKE and SAME will look familiar.
KAM and MAK share the top score of 9 among the 3-letter words from NAMESAKES. SEE, MAN and MEN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of NAMESAKES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with NA · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
What NAMESAKES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. NAMESAKES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAMESAKES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 222) | 152 | 222 | 144 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 70 of them: KAMEES, KEEMAS, SMAAKS, SMEKES, KAMAS, KASME, KEEMA, SMAAK, SMEKE, KAMA, KANAES, KANSES and 58 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: MASKNES, MASKNE, EEK, MASAS, MASES, MASA, MES and SAN.
With one more tile, the letters of NAMESAKES spell the words below.