collating needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
collating is the highest-scoring word from collating, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in collating — and it is collating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling collating produces exactly one eight-letter word: locating. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in collating produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calling and logical. For points, the strongest plays are calling, catling, coaling, coating, cotinga, logical, otalgic, and talcing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling collating turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, action, and gallon. For points, the strongest plays are acting, agonic, coting, gallic, lacing, and locing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, giant, local, logic, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are acing, clang, cling, coign, conga, incog, and logic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in collating produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, coat, coin, cola, gain, goal, and goat. For points, the strongest plays are clag and clog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling collating turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ago, all, ant, can, cat, and con. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in collating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in collating 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.
collating 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.
collating is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing collating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is collating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from collating 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 collating produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.