Hidden inside estivating sit estivating and negativist, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 397 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estivating and negativist tie for the highest Scrabble score from estivating at 14 points. The top 10 of 397 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in estivating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and estivating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estivating and negativist, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling estivating turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tantivies, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estivating. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are vestigia and vintages, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in estivating produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invites, naivest and seating. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including eviting, sieving and staving.
Unscrambling estivating turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing and eating. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including saving, vegans and ganevs.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estivating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gains and gates. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including given, gives and vegan.
Rearranging the letters in estivating produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and east. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including gave, give and vagi.
Unscrambling estivating turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estivating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in estivating plus one additional letter.
estivating 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.
estivating is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing estivating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estivating and negativist, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from estivating 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 estivating produce 397 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.