Hidden inside devaluate sit devaluate and evaluated, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devaluate and evaluated tie for the highest Scrabble score from devaluate at 13 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in devaluate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and devaluate 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 devaluate and evaluated, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devaluate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is valuated, 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 devaluate produces 6 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 devalue, valeted, and vaulted, 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 devaluate turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with valued. For points, the strongest plays are leaved, valued, and vealed — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devaluate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, dealt, leave, value, and vault. For points, the strongest plays are deave, delve, devel, duvet, eaved, evade, laved, and veldt — 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 devaluate produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with data, date, deal, late, lava, lead, and tale. For points, the strongest plays are deva and veld — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling devaluate turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, due, eat, eve, lad, led, and let. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 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 devaluate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in devaluate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in devaluate 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.
devaluate 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for devaluate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
devaluate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devaluate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are devaluate and evaluated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from devaluate 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 devaluate produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.