Hidden inside generates sit generates and teenagers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 385 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
generates and teenagers tie for the highest Scrabble score from generates at 10 points. The top 10 of 385 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in generates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and generates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teenagers. For points, the strongest plays are generates and teenagers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greenest, sergeant, and teenager. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including greenest, sergeant and teenager.
Rearranging the letters in generates produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, nearest, strange, and teenage. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including strange, teenage and argents.
Unscrambling generates turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees and angers. For points, 37 words tie at 7 points, including agents, agrees and angers.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree and anger. For points, 48 words tie at 6 points, including agent, agree and anger.
Rearranging the letters in generates produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and arts. For points, 41 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gate and gene.
Unscrambling generates turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and gee.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in generates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in generates 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.
generates 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for generates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
generates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing generates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are generates and teenagers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from generates 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 generates produce 385 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.