What ANIMATE Means
- verb: heighten or intensify“These paintings exalt the imagination”
- verb: give lifelike qualities to“animated cartoons”
- adjective: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings“the word ‘dog’ is animate”
- adjective: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life“we are animate beings”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ANIMATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 N1 I1 M3 A1 T1 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of ANIMATE (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ANIMATE
132 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (8)
5 letter words (23)
AMAINAMATEAMENTAMINEAMNIAANIMAANIMEANTAEATMANENTIAMANATMANETMANIAMANTAMATAIMATINMEANTMEINTMENTAMINAETAMINTENIATINEA
4 letter words (43)
AINEAMENAMIAAMIEAMINANTAANTEANTIATMAEINAEMITETNAITEMMAINMANAMANEMANIMATEMEANMEATMEINMENTMETAMIENMINAMINEMINTMITENAAMNAMENEATNEMANITETAINTAMETANATANETEAMTEINTIANTIMETINATINE
3 letter words (38)
AIAAIMAINAITAMAAMEAMIANAANEANIANTATEEANEATETAITAMAAMAEMANMATMENMETMNANAENAMNATNETNIENIMNITTAETAITAMTANTEATENTIETIN
2 letter words (20)
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