Hidden inside antiquated sit antiquated and aquatinted, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 196 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antiquated and aquatinted tie for the highest Scrabble score from antiquated at 20 points. The top 10 of 196 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in antiquated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antiquated 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 antiquated and aquatinted, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antiquated produces exactly one nine-letter word: antiquate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiquated. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is antiqued, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antiquated produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with antique and quitted. For points, the strongest plays are quanted and quitted — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antiquated turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, quanta, and united. For points, the strongest play is diquat — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiquated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quiet, quite, and tuned. For points, the strongest play is equid — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antiquated produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, data and date. For points, the strongest plays are qadi, qaid, quad, and quid — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antiquated turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are qat and qua — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiquated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in antiquated plus one additional letter.
antiquated 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for antiquated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
antiquated is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antiquated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antiquated and aquatinted, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antiquated 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 antiquated produce 196 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.