Hidden inside inundates sit inundates and unstained, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 388 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inundates and unstained tie for the highest Scrabble score from inundates at 10 points. The top 10 of 388 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in inundates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inundates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inundates and unstained, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inundates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are audients, dunnites, inundate, and sinuated, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in inundates produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instead and intends. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including instead, intends and audient.
Unscrambling inundates turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duties, insane and intend. For points, 36 words tie at 7 points, including duties, intend and nudest.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inundates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, aunts and dates. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including aside, dates and diets.
Rearranging the letters in inundates produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants and anus. For points, 50 words tie at 5 points, including aids, date and dies.
Unscrambling inundates turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and and. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and and.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inundates. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in inundates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in inundates 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.
inundates 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 3-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 inundates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
inundates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inundates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inundates and unstained, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inundates 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 inundates produce 388 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.