aggravate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aggravate is the highest-scoring word from aggravate, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in aggravate — and it is aggravate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aggravate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grave and great. For points, the strongest plays are agave and grave — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aggravate produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, gate and gave. For points, the strongest plays are gave and vega — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aggravate turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, the strongest play is veg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in aggravate plus one additional letter.
aggravate 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 3-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 aggravate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
aggravate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aggravate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aggravate, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aggravate 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 aggravate produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.