Hidden inside alginate sit agential and alginate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agential and alginate tie for the highest Scrabble score from alginate at 9 points. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in alginate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alginate 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 agential and alginate, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alginate produces 5 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 atingle, elating, gelatin and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alginate turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including eating, agnail and agnate.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alginate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent and alien. For points, 25 words tie at 6 points, including again, agent and angel.
Rearranging the letters in alginate produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gate and lane. For points, 26 words tie at 5 points, including gain, gate and agin.
Unscrambling alginate turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and get.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alginate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in alginate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alginate 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.
alginate 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.
alginate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alginate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agential and alginate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alginate 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 alginate produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.