excavate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
excavate is the highest-scoring word from excavate, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in excavate — and it is excavate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling excavate turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exacta, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excavate. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: exact, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in excavate produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave. For points, the strongest play is vext — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling excavate turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, eve, tax, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are vax and vex — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excavate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in excavate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
excavate 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 four senses for excavate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
excavate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing excavate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is excavate, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from excavate 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 excavate produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.