Hidden inside dedates sit deadest, sedated, and steaded, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEDATES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DEADEST, SEDATED and STEADED.
deadest, sedated, and steaded tie for the highest Scrabble score from dedates at 9 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in dedates produces 3 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 deadest, sedated, and steaded, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dated, dates and deeds. For points, the strongest plays are dated, deads, and deeds — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dedates produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, dads and date. For points, the strongest plays are adds, dads, dead, and deed — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dedates turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and ate. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in dedates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dedates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deadest, sedated, and steaded, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dedates 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 dedates produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.