Hidden inside literate sit laterite and literate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laterite and literate tie for the highest Scrabble score from literate at 8 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in literate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and literate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are laterite and literate, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in literate produces 5 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 ariette, atelier, iterate, retitle, and tertial, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling literate turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letter and relate. For points, the strongest plays are attire, elater, latter, letter, litter, ratite, rattle, relate, retail, retial, retile, tailer, and tilter — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, later, latte, title, trail, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are aerie, alert, alter, arete, ariel, artel, atilt, eater, elate, elite, irate, laree, later, latte, liter, litre, ratel, relet, relit, retia, retie, taler, tater, telae, telia, terai, tetra, tetri, tiler, titer, title, titre, trail, trait, treat, trial, and trite — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in literate produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, liar, rate, real, tail, tale, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are airt, alee, alit, arie, aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, lear, leer, leet, liar, lier, lira, lire, lite, rail, rale, rate, real, reel, rete, rial, riel, rile, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, teel, tela, tele, tier, tile, tilt, tire, tirl, tree, and tret — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling literate turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ait, ale, alt, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, eel, era, ere, eta, ire, lar, lat, lea, lee, lei, let, lie, lit, rai, rat, ree, rei, ret, ria, tae, tar, tat, tea, tee, tel, tet, tie, til, and tit — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, at, el, er, et, it, la, li, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in literate 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.
literate 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 four senses for literate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
literate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing literate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are laterite and literate, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from literate 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 literate produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.