dehydrate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dehydrate is the highest-scoring word from dehydrate, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dehydrate — and it is dehydrate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dehydrate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hydrated, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dehydrate produces 9 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 hydrate and thready, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dehydrate turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with headed, heated, and traded. For points, the strongest plays are deathy and hydrae — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dehydrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, dated and death. For points, the strongest plays are hardy, hayed, heady, and hydra — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dehydrate produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dead. For points, the strongest plays are hyte, they, and yeah — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dehydrate turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, are and art. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and thy.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dehydrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and at. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in dehydrate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dehydrate 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.
dehydrate 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 three senses for dehydrate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
dehydrate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dehydrate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dehydrate, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dehydrate 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 dehydrate produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.