antiquates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 303 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antiquates is the highest-scoring word from antiquates, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 303 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in antiquates — and it is antiquates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antiquates turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antiquate, aquatints, and quaintest, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiquates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with antiques. For points, 5 words tie at 17 points, including antiques, aquatint and equitant.
Rearranging the letters in antiquates produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with antique. For points, 7 words tie at 16 points, including antique, asquint and inquest.
Unscrambling antiquates turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quanta and statue. For points, 11 words tie at 15 points, including quanta, qanats and quaint.
There are 70 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiquates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, quest and quiet. For points, 15 words tie at 14 points, including quest, quiet and quite.
Rearranging the letters in antiquates produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including quit, aqua and qats.
Unscrambling antiquates turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are qat, qis, qua, and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antiquates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in antiquates plus one additional letter.
antiquates 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 two senses for antiquates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
antiquates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antiquates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is antiquates, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from antiquates 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 antiquates produce 303 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 70 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.