Hidden inside advertise sit advertise and derivates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 536 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
advertise and derivates tie for the highest Scrabble score from advertise at 13 points. The top 10 of 536 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in advertise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and advertise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advertise. For points, the strongest plays are advertise and derivates — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advertise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with readiest and steadier. For points, the strongest plays are derivate, deviates, and sedative — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in advertise produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest and starved. For points, the strongest plays are adverse, adverts, advisee, adviser, averted, datives, derives, deviate, deviser, diverse, diverts, evaders, revised, riveted, starved, strived, tardive, and vistaed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling advertise turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, desert, desire, driest, drives, easier, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are advert, advise, dative, davies, davits, deaves, derive, devest, devise, divers, divert, divest, drives, evader, evades, evited, reaved, reived, served, sieved, staved, varied, versed, vested, visaed, visard, and viseed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 149 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advertise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, dares, dates, dears, deers, and diets. For points, the strongest plays are davit, deave, devas, devis, divas, diver, dives, drave, drive, eaved, evade, raved, rived, saved, and vised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in advertise produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, arts, dare, date, dear, and deer. For points, the strongest plays are avid, deva, devi, devs, diva, dive, vide, vids, and vied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling advertise turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advertise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in advertise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in advertise 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.
advertise 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for advertise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
advertise is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing advertise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are advertise and derivates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from advertise 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 advertise produce 536 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 149 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.