Hidden inside indate sit detain and nidate, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
INDATE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DETAIN and NIDATE.
detain and nidate tie for the highest Scrabble score from indate at 7 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling indate turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detain and nidate, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anted, ident, teind, and tined, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in indate produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet and dine. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including date, diet and dine.
Unscrambling indate turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and ant. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including aid, and and die.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
21 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in indate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in indate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detain and nidate, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indate 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 indate produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.