irrigates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
irrigates is the highest-scoring word from irrigates, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in irrigates — and it is irrigates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irrigates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is irrigate, 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 irrigates produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aigrets, artigis, gaiters, garrets, garters, graters, grister, seagirt, stagier, and triages, 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 irrigates turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest, and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, aigret, artigi, atigis, gaiter, garret, garter, gaster, gaters, grater, grates, gratis, greats, ragers, rerigs, retags, sagier, stager, targes, tigers, and triage — 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irrigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, great, rages, raise, rates, stage, and stair. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agist, atigi, gaits, gater, gates, gears, getas, girts, gites, grate, great, grist, grits, rager, rages, ragis, rerig, retag, sager, sarge, stage, staig, targe, terga, tiger, tragi, and trigs — 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 irrigates produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, egis, ergs, gaes, gait, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gest, geta, gets, gies, girt, gist, gite, gits, grat, grit, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, sage, stag, tags, tegs, and trig — 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 irrigates turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, gat, get, gie, gis, git, grr, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irrigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in irrigates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in irrigates 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.
irrigates 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 1-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 irrigates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
irrigates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing irrigates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is irrigates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from irrigates 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 irrigates produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.