Hidden inside hedates is one standout: headset, a seven-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
HEDATES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to HEADSET (noun), a pair of earphones, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
headset is the highest-scoring word from hedates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling hedates produces exactly one seven-letter word: headset. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hedates turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaths, heated, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are deaths, hasted, and heated — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hedates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, death and eased. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including death, hated and heads.
Rearranging the letters in hedates produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, ease and east. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including head, ahed and dahs.
Unscrambling hedates turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ash and ate. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hedates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in hedates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hedates 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is headset, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hedates 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 hedates produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.