correlates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 746 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
correlates is the highest-scoring word from correlates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 746 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in correlates — and it is correlates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling correlates 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 corelates, correlate, and relocates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in correlates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterers, clearest, and creators. For points, 22 words tie at 10 points, including caterers, clearest and creators.
Rearranging the letters in correlates produces 84 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, carrots and caterer. For points, 62 words tie at 9 points, including careers, carrots and caterer.
Unscrambling correlates turns up 157 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, alerts and alters. For points, 86 words tie at 8 points, including actors, career and carrot.
There are 186 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in correlates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert and alter. For points, 81 words tie at 7 points, including actor, cares and carts.
Rearranging the letters in correlates produces 180 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also and arts. For points, 58 words tie at 6 points, including acts, race and scar.
Unscrambling correlates turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in correlates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and or.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in correlates plus one additional letter.
correlates 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 four senses for correlates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
correlates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing correlates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is correlates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from correlates 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 correlates produce 746 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 30 eight-letter words, 84 seven-letter words, 157 six-letter words, 186 five-letter words, 180 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.