Hidden inside hydrate sit hydrate and thready, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hydrate and thready tie for the highest Scrabble score from hydrate at 14 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hydrate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hydrate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hydrate and thready, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hydrate turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deathy and hydrae, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hydrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with death, earth and hated. For points, the strongest plays are hardy, hayed, heady, and hydra — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hydrate produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, the strongest plays are hyte, they, and yeah — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hydrate turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and thy.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hydrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and at. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in hydrate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hydrate 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.
hydrate 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 hydrate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
hydrate is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hydrate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hydrate and thready, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hydrate 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 hydrate produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.