antedates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antedates is the highest-scoring word from antedates, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in antedates — and it is antedates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antedates produces exactly one eight-letter word: antedate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antedates produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attends and neatest. For points, the strongest plays are ansated, attends, dentate, detents, estated, and standee — 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 antedates turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, estate, seated, tasted, teased, and tested. For points, the strongest plays are adnate, anteed, attend, detent, detest, nested, netted, seated, sedate, staned, stated, tasted, teased, teated, tensed, tented, and tested — 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antedates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, eased, eaten, needs, stand, state, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are aedes, anted, atted, dates, deans, deets, denes, dense, dents, eased, nadas, needs, saned, sated, sedan, stade, stand, stead, steed, tased, tends, and tsade — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antedates produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, data, date, ease, east, eats, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are ands, dans, data, date, dean, dees, deet, dene, dens, dent, ends, nada, need, sade, sand, seed, send, sned, tads, teds, teed, and tend — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antedates turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ate, eat, end, and net. For points, the strongest plays are ads, and, dan, das, dee, den, eds, end, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antedates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 antedates 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.
antedates 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 antedates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
antedates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antedates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is antedates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from antedates 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 antedates produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.