Hidden inside literates sit laterites, literates, and statelier, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 502 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laterites, literates, and statelier tie for the highest Scrabble score from literates at 9 points. The top 10 of 502 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in literates: two come from rearranging its letters, and literates 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 laterites, literates, and statelier, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest. For points, the strongest plays are alertest, ariettes, ateliers, earliest, iterates, laterite, leariest, literate, realties, retitles, teariest, tertials, treaties, and treatise — 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 literates produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letters, relates, saltier, startle, and tastier. For points, the strongest plays are aeriest, ariette, artiest, artiste, atelier, attires, elaters, estreat, iratest, iterate, latters, leister, letters, litters, ratites, rattles, realest, realise, realist, relates, reslate, restate, retails, retaste, retiles, retitle, saltier, saltire, seriate, settler, slatier, slitter, starlet, starlit, startle, stealer, sterile, sterlet, striate, tailers, tastier, tertial, testier, tilters, and trestle — 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 literates turns up 93 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, artist, easier, easter, estate, and latest. For points, the strongest plays are aeries, airest, alerts, alters, aretes, ariels, artels, artist, artsie, attire, easier, easter, eaters, elater, elates, elites, estate, estral, larees, laster, latest, latter, lattes, leaser, letter, listee, lister, liters, litest, litres, litter, ratels, ratite, rattle, reales, relate, relets, relies, relist, resail, resale, reseal, reseat, resile, resite, retail, retest, retial, reties, retile, sailer, salter, saltie, satire, sealer, seater, serail, serial, setter, settle, sitter, slater, staler, stater, stelae, stelai, stelar, strait, strati, streel, street, striae, tailer, talers, taster, taters, teasel, teaser, terais, testae, tester, tetras, tetris, tilers, tilter, titers, titles, titres, trails, traits, treats, trials, and triste — 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 132 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, erase, laser, later, and latte. For points, the strongest plays are aerie, airts, aisle, alert, alist, alter, arete, ariel, arils, arise, arles, artel, aster, astir, atilt, earls, easel, easer, eater, elate, elite, erase, ester, irate, islet, istle, lairs, laree, lares, laris, laser, later, latte, lears, lease, least, leers, leets, liars, liers, liras, litas, liter, lites, litre, rails, raise, rales, ratel, rates, reais, reals, reels, reest, relet, relit, resat, reset, resit, retia, retie, rials, riels, riles, rites, saree, serai, seral, setae, setal, siree, sitar, slate, sleet, slier, stair, stale, stare, start, state, steal, steel, steer, stela, stele, stere, stile, stilt, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tares, tarsi, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, teals, tears, tease, teats, teels, telae, teles, telia, terai, teres, terse, tesla, testa, tetra, tetri, tiers, tiler, tiles, tilts, tires, tirls, titer, title, titre, trail, trait, treat, trees, trets, trial, tries, 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 literates produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, last, late, lets, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, airt, aits, alee, ales, alit, alts, ares, arie, aril, arse, arts, ates, lair, lari, lars, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lear, leas, leer, lees, leet, leis, lest, lets, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, list, lite, lits, rail, rais, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reel, rees, reis, rest, rete, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, rite, sail, sale, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seat, seel, seer, sera, sere, seta, sett, sial, silt, sire, site, slat, slit, star, stat, stet, stir, earl, ears, ease, east, eats, eels, else, eras, erst, etas, ilea, ires, isle, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, teal, tear, teas, teat, teel, tees, tela, tele, tels, test, tets, tier, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tire, tirl, tits, tree, tres, tret, and tsar — 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 literates turns up 67 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, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, eel, els, era, ere, ers, est, eta, ire, its, lar, las, lat, lea, lee, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, rai, ras, rat, ree, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sal, sat, sea, see, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tee, tel, tes, tet, tie, til, tis, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, 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.
12 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in literates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in literates 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.
literates 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 literates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
literates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing literates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are laterites, literates, and statelier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from literates 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 literates produce 502 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 93 six-letter words, 132 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.