aerates needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aerates is the highest-scoring word from aerates, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in aerates — and it is aerates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aerates turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter. For points, the strongest plays are aerate, aretes, easter, eaters, reatas, reseat, seater, and teaser — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, erase, rates, stare, steer, tears, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are areae, areas, arete, aster, easer, eater, erase, ester, rates, reata, reest, resat, reset, saree, setae, stare, steer, stere, tares, taser, tears, tease, teres, terse, and trees — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aerates produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, star, tare, tars, tase, tear, teas, tees, tree, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aerates turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are aas, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, ere, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, and tes — each worth 3 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 aerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in aerates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
aerates 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in aerates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for aerates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
aerates is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aerates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aerates, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aerates 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 aerates produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.