advertises needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 711 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
advertises is the highest-scoring word from advertises, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 711 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in advertises — and it is advertises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling advertises turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advertise. For points, the strongest plays are advertise, derivates, and sedatives — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advertises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with disaster, readiest, resisted, and steadier. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including advisees, advisers and derivate.
Rearranging the letters in advertises produces 84 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advises, dearest and deserts. For points, 24 words tie at 11 points, including advises, starved and adverse.
Unscrambling advertises turns up 158 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, desert and desire. For points, 27 words tie at 10 points, including advise, drives and served.
There are 191 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advertises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including dives, drive and saved.
Rearranging the letters in advertises produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and arts. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including dive, avid and deva.
Unscrambling advertises turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advertises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in advertises plus one additional letter.
advertises 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 advertises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
advertises is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing advertises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is advertises, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from advertises 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 advertises produce 711 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 84 seven-letter words, 158 six-letter words, 191 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.