modulate 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, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modulate is the highest-scoring word from modulate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in modulate — and it is modulate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modulate 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 moulted, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modulate turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are almude, loamed, malted and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modulate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, dealt and medal. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including medal, model and almud.
Rearranging the letters in modulate produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, auto and date. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including made, mode and dame.
Unscrambling modulate turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, dot and due. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including mad, mud and dam.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modulate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in modulate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modulate 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.
modulate 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for modulate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
modulate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modulate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modulate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modulate 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 modulate produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.