Hidden inside enervates sit enervates and venerates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enervates and venerates tie for the highest Scrabble score from enervates at 12 points. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in enervates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and enervates 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 enervates and venerates, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enervates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with veterans. For points, the strongest plays are enervate, eventers, ravenest, venerate, and veterans — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in enervates produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, evenest, nearest, servant, taverns, and veteran. For points, the strongest plays are eveners, evenest, eventer, nervate, servant, taverns, veneers, venters, versant, and veteran — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling enervates turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters, evener, events, neater, nerves, and resent. For points, the strongest plays are averse, averts, evener, events, everts, nerves, ravens, reaves, reeves, revest, revets, severe, starve, steeve, tavern, traves, vaster, veenas, veneer, venter, verset, verste, and vestee — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enervates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eaten, enter, erase, event, nerve, and never. For points, the strongest plays are avens, avers, avert, eaves, evens, event, evert, naves, nerve, never, neves, raven, raves, reave, reeve, revet, saver, serve, seven, sever, stave, trave, vanes, veena, veers, venae, vents, verse, verst, verts, and vesta — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in enervates produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, eave, even, ever, eves, nave, navs, neve, rave, revs, save, tavs, vane, vans, vars, vase, vast, vats, veer, vees, vena, vent, vera, vert, vest, and vets — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling enervates turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, nav, rev, sev, tav, van, var, vas, vat, vee, and vet — each worth 6 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 enervates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in enervates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in enervates 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.
enervates 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 two senses for enervates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
enervates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing enervates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enervates and venerates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from enervates 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 enervates produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.