Hidden inside indicates sit actinides, andesitic, and indicates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 408 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actinides, andesitic, and indicates tie for the highest Scrabble score from indicates at 12 points. The top 10 of 408 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in indicates: two come from rearranging its letters, and indicates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with indicates. For points, the strongest plays are actinides, andesitic, and indicates — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance and indicate. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including distance, indicate and actinide.
Rearranging the letters in indicates produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies and instead. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including candies, dacites and decants.
Unscrambling indicates turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, dances, inside, and nicest. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including dances, ascend and cadent.
There are 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted and aside. For points, 23 words tie at 8 points, including acids, acted and dance.
Rearranging the letters in indicates produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including acid, dice and aced.
Unscrambling indicates turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in indicates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in indicates 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.
indicates 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 five senses for indicates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
indicates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indicates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actinides, andesitic, and indicates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indicates 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 indicates produce 408 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.