excavates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
excavates is the highest-scoring word from excavates, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in excavates — and it is excavates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling excavates produces exactly one eight-letter word: excavate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in excavates produces 4 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 exactas, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling excavates turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exacta, exacts, and exsect, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excavates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caves, cease, exact, taxes, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are vaxes and vexes — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in excavates produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case, cast, cats, cave, ease, and east. 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 excavates turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, eve, sat, and sea. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excavates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, 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 excavates 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.
excavates 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 excavates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
excavates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing excavates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is excavates, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from excavates 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 excavates produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.