frigates needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 352 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
frigates is the highest-scoring word from frigates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 352 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in frigates — and it is frigates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in frigates produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairest. For points, the strongest plays are frigate and regifts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling frigates turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, griefs, and tigers. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including griefs, friges and grafts.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in frigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates and fears. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including gifts, grief and frags.
Rearranging the letters in frigates produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and arts. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gift, fags and figs.
Unscrambling frigates turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in frigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in frigates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in frigates 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.
frigates 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for frigates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
frigates is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing frigates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is frigates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from frigates 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 frigates produce 352 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.