dentate needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dentate is the highest-scoring word from dentate, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in dentate — and it is dentate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dentate turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend. For points, the strongest plays are anteed, attend, detent, netted, teated, and tented — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dentate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten. For points, the strongest plays are anted and atted — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dentate produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, neat, need, teen, tend, and tent. For points, the strongest plays are date, dean, deet, dene, dent, need, teed, and tend — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dentate turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, ate, eat, end, net, and tad. For points, the strongest plays are and, dan, dee, den, end, tad, and ted — each worth 4 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 dentate. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in dentate 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.
dentate 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 one sense for dentate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
dentate is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dentate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dentate, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dentate 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 dentate produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.