dedicates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dedicates is the highest-scoring word from dedicates, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dedicates — and it is dedicates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedicates. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: dedicate, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dedicates produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decades and decides. For points, the strongest plays are addicts, caddies, decades, decides, and didacts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dedicates turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceased, decade, decide, edited, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are addict, caddie, caddis, decade, decide, deiced, didact, and disced — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, cease, dated, dates, and deeds. 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 dedicates produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, adds, aids, case, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cede, cedi, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — 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 dedicates turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, add, ads, aid, ate, cat, and dad. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in dedicates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dedicates 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.
dedicates 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 dedicates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dedicates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dedicates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dedicates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dedicates 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 dedicates produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.