dedicate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dedicate is the highest-scoring word from dedicate, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in dedicate — and it is dedicate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dedicate produces exactly one seven-letter word: ideated. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dedicate turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decade, decide, and edited. For points, the strongest plays are addict, caddie, decade, decide, deiced, and didact — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted and dated. For points, the strongest plays are ceded and diced — 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 dedicate produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, date, dead, deed, dice, died, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, caid, cede, cedi, dace, dice, and iced — 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 dedicate turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, add, aid, ate, cat, dad, and did. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — 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 dedicate 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.
dedicate 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 four senses for dedicate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dedicate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dedicate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dedicate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dedicate 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 dedicate produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.