moderate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moderate is the highest-scoring word from moderate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in moderate — and it is moderate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moderate produces exactly one seven-letter word: remated. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moderate turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dreamt, meteor, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are demote, dreamt, emerod, emoted, marted, meated, metred, moated, oedema, radome, reamed, remade, roamed, teamed, and termed — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed, dream, meter, and trade. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, armed, derma, dream, edema, madre, mated, merde, meted, and tamed — 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 moderate produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, dare, date, dear, deer, dorm, and made. For points, the strongest plays are dame, deem, deme, demo, derm, dome, dorm, dram, made, mead, meed, and mode — 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 moderate turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, dot, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, med, and mod — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, do, me, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 moderate 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.
moderate 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 ten senses for moderate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
moderate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moderate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is moderate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from moderate 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 moderate produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 26 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.