Hidden inside liberates sit beastlier, bleariest, and liberates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 632 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beastlier, bleariest, and liberates tie for the highest Scrabble score from liberates at 11 points. The top 10 of 632 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in liberates: two come from rearranging its letters, and liberates 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 beastlier, bleariest, and liberates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in liberates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest. For points, the strongest plays are abseiler, arbelest, blastier, blearest, bleaters, liberate, librates, restable, and retables — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in liberates produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relates and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are ableist, albites, astilbe, bailees, bailers, baiters, barites, bastile, beastie, beaters, beliers, belters, berates, bestial, blaster, blastie, bleater, blister, bristle, labrets, librate, rebaits, rebates, retable, riblets, stabile, stabler, terbias, trebles, triable, and tribals — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling liberates turns up 114 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts, alters, barest, breast, easier, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are abeles, ablest, abseil, albeit, albite, bailee, bailer, baiter, balers, baltis, barest, barite, baster, beater, belier, belies, belter, berate, berets, bestie, bestir, betels, betise, birles, bister, bistre, biters, blares, blears, bleats, blites, brails, braise, brasil, breast, labret, libers, librae, libras, rabies, rebait, rebase, rebate, rebels, riblet, sabler, stable, tabers, tables, terbia, treble, tribal, and tribes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 174 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in liberates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, aisle, alert, alter, bails, baits, and bears. For points, the strongest plays are abele, abets, abler, ables, abris, bails, baits, baler, bales, balti, bares, baser, basil, baste, bates, beals, bears, beast, beats, beers, beets, belie, belts, beret, beset, betas, betel, biers, biles, birle, birls, birse, biter, bites, blare, blase, blast, blate, blats, blear, bleat, blest, blets, blite, braes, brail, brats, brees, bries, brits, liber, libra, rabis, rebel, ribes, saber, sabir, sable, sabre, taber, tabes, table, and tribe — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in liberates produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, airs, arts, bail, bait, bare, and bars. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, abri, albs, arbs, baes, bail, bait, bale, bals, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, bear, beat, beer, bees, beet, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, bias, bier, bile, birl, bise, bite, bits, blae, blat, blet, brae, bras, brat, bree, brie, bris, brit, labs, libs, rabi, rebs, ribs, sabe, slab, stab, tabs, and isba — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling liberates turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bee. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, arb, bae, bal, bar, bas, bat, bee, bel, bes, bet, bis, bit, bra, lab, lib, reb, rib, sab, sib, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in liberates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 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 liberates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in liberates 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.
liberates 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 four senses for liberates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
liberates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing liberates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are beastlier, bleariest, and liberates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from liberates 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 liberates produce 632 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 114 six-letter words, 174 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.