Hidden inside debates sit bestead and debates, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bestead and debates tie for the highest Scrabble score from debates at 10 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in debates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and debates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with debates. For points, the strongest plays are bestead and debates — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling debates turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with debate, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are basted, bested, debase, debate, and seabed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, beast, beats, dates, debts, eased, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are based, bated, beads, debts, and sabed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in debates produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, base, bats, beat, beds, bees, and best. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, bead, beds, dabs, debs, and debt — 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 debates turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate, bad, bat, bed, bee, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 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 debates 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.
debates 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 six senses for debates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
debates is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing debates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bestead and debates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from debates 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 debates produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.