Hidden inside federates sit defeaters, federates, and redefeats, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 323 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defeaters, federates, and redefeats tie for the highest Scrabble score from federates at 13 points. The top 10 of 323 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in federates: two come from rearranging its letters, and federates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defeaters, federates, and redefeats, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in federates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defeater, draftees, federate and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in federates produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafest, dearest, defeats, and steered. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including deafest, defeats and draftee.
Unscrambling federates turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, defeat and desert. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including deafer, defeat and feared.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in federates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, dares and dates. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, defat and defer.
Rearranging the letters in federates produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and daft.
Unscrambling federates turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in federates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in federates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in federates 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.
federates 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 federates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for federates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
federates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing federates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defeaters, federates, and redefeats, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from federates 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 federates produce 323 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.