Hidden inside denervate sit denervate, enervated, and venerated, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denervate, enervated, and venerated tie for the highest Scrabble score from denervate at 13 points. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in denervate: two come from rearranging its letters, and denervate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denervate, enervated, and venerated, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denervate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enervate and venerate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in denervate produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered and veteran. For points, the strongest plays are averted, everted, ravened, and verdant — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling denervate turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned, evener and neater. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including advent, advert and evader.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denervate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter and event. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including daven, deave and drave.
Rearranging the letters in denervate produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, the strongest plays are deva and vend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling denervate turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denervate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in denervate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in denervate 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.
denervate 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.
denervate is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing denervate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denervate, enervated, and venerated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from denervate 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 denervate produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.