investigate needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 522 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
investigate is the highest-scoring word from investigate, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 522 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in investigate — and it is investigate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in investigate produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estivating and negativist, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling investigate turns up 9 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agentives, genitives, gestative and 3 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in investigate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with negative. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including negative, agentive and envisage.
Rearranging the letters in investigate produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invites, naivest and neatest. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including avenges, eviting and genevas.
Unscrambling investigate turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing and eating. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including saving, vegans and avenge.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in investigate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, eaten and event. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including given, gives and vegan.
Rearranging the letters in investigate produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and ease. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including gave, give and vagi.
Unscrambling investigate turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in investigate. 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.
4 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in investigate plus one additional letter.
investigate 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 investigate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
investigate is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing investigate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is investigate, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from investigate 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 investigate produce 522 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 29 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.