Hidden inside antiplague sit antiplague and plateauing, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 489 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antiplague and plateauing tie for the highest Scrabble score from antiplague at 13 points. The top 10 of 489 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in antiplague: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antiplague itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antiplague and plateauing, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiplague. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paginate and pleating, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antiplague produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping and pageant. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including leaping, pageant and paginal.
Unscrambling antiplague turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, guinea and peanut. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including taping, guinep and paling.
There are 111 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiplague. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent and alien. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including agape, aping and genip.
Rearranging the letters in antiplague produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, lane and late. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including page, plug and pang.
Unscrambling antiplague turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ape. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gap, pig and gip.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiplague. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, pi, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
antiplague 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
antiplague is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antiplague unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antiplague and plateauing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antiplague 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 antiplague produce 489 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 111 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.