Hidden inside antidote sit antidote and tetanoid, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antidote and tetanoid tie for the highest Scrabble score from antidote at 9 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in antidote: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antidote 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 antidote and tetanoid, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antidote produces 2 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 notated and tainted, 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 antidote turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend and donate. For points, the strongest plays are atoned, attend, detain, donate, iodate, nidate, tinted, and toited — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antidote. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anode, anted, atted, danio, datto, ditto, ident, noted, teind, tined, tondi, toned, and toted, 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 antidote produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet, dine, done, edit, idea, and into. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, date, dato, dean, deni, dent, diet, dine, dino, dint, dita, dite, doat, doit, dona, done, dote, edit, idea, nide, node, nodi, odea, tend, tide, tied, toad, and toed — 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 antidote turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, ant, ate, die, dot, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ado, aid, and, dan, den, die, din, dit, doe, don, dot, end, nod, oda, ode, tad, ted, and tod — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antidote. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, and od — 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 antidote 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.
antidote 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 one sense for antidote. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
antidote is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antidote unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antidote and tetanoid, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antidote 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 antidote produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.