Hidden inside federate sit defeater, federate, and redefeat, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defeater, federate, and redefeat tie for the highest Scrabble score from federate at 12 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in federate: two come from rearranging its letters, and federate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defeater, federate, and redefeat, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling federate produces exactly one seven-letter word: draftee. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling federate turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, defeat, and feared. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including deafer, defeat and feared.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in federate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after and trade. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including defat, defer and draft.
Rearranging the letters in federate produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and deaf. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and daft.
Unscrambling federate turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in federate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in federate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in federate 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.
federate 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in federate carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for federate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
federate is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing federate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defeater, federate, and redefeat, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from federate 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 federate produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 16 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.