Hidden inside irritates sit arteritis and irritates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arteritis and irritates tie for the highest Scrabble score from irritates at 9 points. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in irritates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and irritates 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 arteritis and irritates, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irritates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are irritate, rarities, straiter, and tarriest, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in irritates produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starter and tastier. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including starter, tastier and airiest.
Unscrambling irritates turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, artist and rarest. For points, 41 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, artist and rarest.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irritates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates and stair. For points, 53 words tie at 5 points, including raise, rates and stair.
Rearranging the letters in irritates produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 62 words tie at 4 points, including airs, arts and ears.
Unscrambling irritates turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 44 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and art.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irritates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in irritates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in irritates 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.
irritates 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in irritates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for irritates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
irritates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing irritates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arteritis and irritates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from irritates 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 irritates produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.