Hidden inside activating sit activating and cavitating, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
activating and cavitating tie for the highest Scrabble score from activating at 16 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in activating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and activating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with activating. For points, the strongest plays are activating and cavitating — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in activating. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vacating, 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 activating produces 9 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 aviatic and viatica, 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 activating turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting and vagina. For points, the strongest plays are caving and vicing — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in activating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, attic, and giant. For points, the strongest plays are vatic, vinca, and vinic — 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 activating produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain. For points, the strongest play is cava — 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 activating turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, nag, tag, and tan. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in activating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in activating plus one additional letter.
activating 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for activating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
activating is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing activating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are activating and cavitating, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from activating 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 activating produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.