Hidden inside makebates sit bakemeats and makebates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bakemeats and makebates tie for the highest Scrabble score from makebates at 17 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in makebates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and makebates 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 bakemeats and makebates, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in makebates. 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.
Rearranging the letters in makebates produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tambaks, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in makebates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bakes, beams and beast. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including bakes, makes and beaks.
Rearranging the letters in makebates produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bake, base and bats. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including bake, make and mask.
Unscrambling makebates turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ate and bam. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in makebates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in makebates 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.
makebates 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.
makebates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing makebates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bakemeats and makebates, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from makebates 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 makebates produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.