levitate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levitate is the highest-scoring word from levitate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in levitate — and it is levitate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling levitate produces exactly one seven-letter word: elative. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling levitate turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are velate, vittae, and vittle, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levitate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alive, latte, leave, and title. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including alive, leave and evite.
Rearranging the letters in levitate produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, late and live. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including evil, live and veal.
Unscrambling levitate turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and eve. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including eve, vet and ave.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in levitate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in levitate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
levitate 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 levitate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
levitate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing levitate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is levitate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from levitate 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 levitate produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.