modulated needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modulated is the highest-scoring word from modulated, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in modulated — and it is modulated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modulated produces exactly one eight-letter word: modulate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modulated produces 4 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 moulded, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modulated turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loaded. For points, the strongest plays are molded and muddle — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modulated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, dated and dealt. For points, the strongest play is domed — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modulated produces 91 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 modulated turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ate and dad. 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 modulated. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in modulated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modulated 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.
modulated 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 two senses for modulated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
modulated is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modulated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modulated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modulated 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 modulated produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.