Hidden inside indurate sit indurate, ruinated, and urinated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 287 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indurate, ruinated, and urinated tie for the highest Scrabble score from indurate at 9 points. The top 10 of 287 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in indurate: two come from rearranging its letters, and indurate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with urinated. For points, the strongest plays are indurate, ruinated, and urinated — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indurate produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trained and urinate. For points, the strongest plays are antired, audient, daunter, detrain, intrude, natured, trained, turdine, unaired, unitard, unrated, untired, untread, untried, and uranide — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indurate turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nature, rained, ruined, turned, and united. For points, the strongest plays are airted, ardent, dautie, denari, detain, dunite, durian, inured, nidate, rained, ranted, rident, ruined, tinder, tirade, trined, tundra, turned, united, unread, untied, and uredia — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indurate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, diner, drain, nuder, tired, trade, and train. For points, the strongest plays are adieu, aider, aired, anted, audit, dater, daunt, deair, denar, derat, dinar, diner, drain, ident, indue, irade, nadir, nuder, nudie, ranid, rated, redan, redia, tared, teind, tendu, tined, tired, trade, tread, trend, triad, tried, trued, tuned, and under — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indurate produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, dare, date, dear, diet, dine, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dare, darn, dart, date, daut, dean, dear, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirt, dita, dite, drat, duet, duit, dune, dunt, dura, dure, durn, edit, idea, ired, nard, nerd, nide, nude, nurd, raid, rand, read, rend, ride, rind, rude, rued, tend, tide, tied, trad, turd, and unde — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indurate turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dan, den, die, din, dit, due, dui, dun, end, rad, red, rid, tad, ted, and urd — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indurate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in indurate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
indurate 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 indurate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
indurate is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indurate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are indurate, ruinated, and urinated, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indurate 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 indurate produce 287 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.