Hidden inside makebate sit bakemeat and makebate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bakemeat and makebate tie for the highest Scrabble score from makebate at 16 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in makebate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and makebate 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 bakemeat and makebate, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in makebate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abeam and ameba, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in makebate produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bake, beam and beat. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including bake, make and beak.
Unscrambling makebate turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bam and bat. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in makebate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, be, and me. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in makebate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in makebate 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.
makebate 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.
makebate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing makebate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bakemeat and makebate, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from makebate 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 makebate produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.