Hidden inside acylates sit acylates and catalyse, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
acylates and catalyse tie for the highest Scrabble score from acylates at 13 points. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in acylates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and acylates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acylates and catalyse, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in acylates produces 4 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 acetyls and acylate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in acylates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with least, salty and scale. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including acyls, clays and lacey.
Rearranging the letters in acylates produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case and cast. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including clay, acyl and cays.
Unscrambling acylates turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate and aye. For points, the strongest play is cay — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in acylates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in acylates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in acylates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
acylates 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
acylates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing acylates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are acylates and catalyse, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from acylates 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 acylates produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.