Hidden inside edentates sit attendees and edentates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attendees and edentates tie for the highest Scrabble score from edentates at 10 points. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in edentates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and edentates 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 attendees and edentates, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edentates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attendee, detentes, and edentate, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in edentates produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attends and neatest. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including attends, dentate and detente.
Unscrambling edentates turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, estate and seated. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including attend, seated and tasted.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edentates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, eased and eaten. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including dates, eased and needs.
Rearranging the letters in edentates produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, date and ease. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including date, ends and need.
Unscrambling edentates turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and end.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edentates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in edentates 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.
edentates 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 two senses for edentates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
edentates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing edentates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attendees and edentates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from edentates 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 edentates produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.