instigated needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 489 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
instigated is the highest-scoring word from instigated, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 489 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in instigated — and it is instigated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling instigated turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is digestant, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instigated. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are digitate, dingiest, ideating and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in instigated produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attends, datings and dentist. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including datings, editing and agisted.
Unscrambling instigated turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, attend and dating. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including dating, design and gained.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instigated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aside and dates. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including dangs, degas and deign.
Rearranging the letters in instigated produces 142 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and aids. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including aged, digs and dags.
Unscrambling instigated turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and aid. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dag and gad.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instigated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
instigated 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.
instigated is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing instigated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is instigated, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from instigated 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 instigated produce 489 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.