Hidden inside activates sit activates and cavitates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
activates and cavitates tie for the highest Scrabble score from activates at 14 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in activates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and activates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with activates. For points, the strongest plays are activates and cavitates — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in activates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with activate. For points, the strongest plays are activate and cavitate — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in activates produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actives, caveats, cavetti, and vacates, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling activates turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with active and attics. For points, the strongest plays are active, atavic, caveat, cavies, civets, evicts, vacate, and vesica — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in activates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, caves, state, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are cavas, caves, cavie, civet, evict, vatic, and vices — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in activates produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case, cast, cats, cave, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling activates turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, ice, its, and sat. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in activates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, as, at, es, et, is, it, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in activates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in activates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
activates 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for activates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
activates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing activates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are activates and cavitates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from activates 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 activates produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.