Hidden inside relate sit elater and relate, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elater and relate tie for the highest Scrabble score from relate at 6 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in relate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relate. For points, the strongest plays are elater and relate — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, and later. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, arete, artel, eater, elate, laree, later, ratel, relet, taler, and telae — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relate produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, rate, real, tale, tear, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are alee, earl, late, lear, leer, leet, rale, rate, real, reel, rete, tael, tale, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, and tree — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relate turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eel, era, ere, eta, lar, lat, lea, lee, let, rat, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee, and tel — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, at, el, er, et, la, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
28 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in relate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
relate 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 five senses for relate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
relate is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elater and relate, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relate 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 relate produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.