Unscramble ANIMATE and you have 134 words, ANIMATE itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of ANIMATE is on the page: AMENTIA, each 9 points. The best shorter words score 8: 7 of them, INMATE, ANEMIA and AMENTA included. The 7 letters split into 4 vowels and 3 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of ANIMATE at once for 59 in Scrabble (9 + 50) or 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
NEAAITM unscrambles to ANIMATE: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for amitena, inamate, meatnia, einmata, mnataei, nametai, nametia, taimean, minteaa or ainmaet? They use the same letters as ANIMATE, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from ANIMATE by length: 2 with 7 letters, 8 with 6, 23 with 5, 43 with 4, 38 with 3 and 20 with 2.
Of the 43 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ANIMATE, 28 score 6 points, the group's best. TIME, NAME and ITEM are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ANIMATE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with AN · ending in TE · all 7-letter words
What ANIMATE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ANIMATE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANIMATE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 134) | 109 | 134 | 103 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MANATI, TAMINE, AMATE, MANET, MATAI, MEINT, TAMIN, MEIN, MENT, NAAM, AME, MAA and 13 more, 25 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: AMENTA, MANAT, MANI, TEIN, TIAN and TE, 6 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of ANIMATE and one more.