excavated needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
excavated is the highest-scoring word from excavated, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in excavated — and it is excavated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excavated. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is excavate, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in excavated produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exacted, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling excavated turns up 4 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excavated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted and exact. For points, the strongest plays are vaxed and vexed — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in excavated produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, data, and date. 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 excavated turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, eve, tad, and tax. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excavated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, 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 excavated 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.
excavated 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.
excavated is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing excavated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is excavated, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from excavated 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 excavated produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.