instigates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 404 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
instigates is the highest-scoring word from instigates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 404 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in instigates — and it is instigates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling instigates 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 words are angstiest, instigate, and stingiest, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest and testings. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including testings, eastings and estating.
Rearranging the letters in instigates produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seating, setting and sitting. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including seating, setting and sitting.
Unscrambling instigates turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, assign and easing. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including agents, assign and easing.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gains and gases. For points, 35 words tie at 6 points, including agent, gains and gases.
Rearranging the letters in instigates produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and east. For points, 40 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gain and gate.
Unscrambling instigates turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ass. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and get.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in instigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in instigates plus one additional letter.
instigates 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 two senses for instigates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
instigates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing instigates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is instigates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from instigates 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 instigates produce 404 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.