Hidden inside relates sit elaters, realest, relates and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SELRATE, REASLET or RAETSEL and you get the same 7 letters as RELATES: so the words from RELATES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
elaters, realest, relates and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from relates at 7 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in relates: four come from rearranging its letters, and relates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relates. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including relates, elaters and realest.
Unscrambling relates turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, easter, and relate. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, alters and easter.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and erase. For points, 60 words tie at 5 points, including alert, alter and erase.
Rearranging the letters in relates produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and ease. For points, 68 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and ease.
Unscrambling relates turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 43 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and ae.
36 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in relates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
relates 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 relates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
relates is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elaters, realest, relates, reslate, and stealer, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relates 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 relates produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.