moderates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 584 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moderates is the highest-scoring word from moderates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 584 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in moderates — and it is moderates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastered. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including mastered, destream and moderate.
Rearranging the letters in moderates produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, maestro and meteors. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including steamed, stormed and demotes.
Unscrambling moderates turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, desert and dreams. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including dreams, dreamt and adeems.
There are 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed and atoms. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including armed, dorms and dream.
Rearranging the letters in moderates produces 177 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and atom. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including made, mode and dorm.
Unscrambling moderates turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and arm. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dom.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in moderates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moderates 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.
moderates 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 moderates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
moderates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moderates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is moderates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from moderates 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 moderates produce 584 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 177 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.