distillate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 373 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distillate is the highest-scoring word from distillate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 373 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in distillate — and it is distillate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling distillate produces exactly one nine-letter word: tailslide. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distillate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diallist and idealist, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in distillate produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details, stalled, and tallest. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including details, stalled and dailies.
Unscrambling distillate turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail, ladies and lasted. For points, 35 words tie at 7 points, including detail, ladies and lasted.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distillate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside and dates. For points, 47 words tie at 6 points, including aside, dates and deals.
Rearranging the letters in distillate produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date and deal. For points, 44 words tie at 5 points, including aids, date and deal.
Unscrambling distillate turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and all. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distillate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in distillate plus one additional letter.
distillate 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 one sense for distillate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
distillate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distillate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is distillate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from distillate 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 distillate produce 373 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.