Hidden inside navigate sit navigate and vaginate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
navigate and vaginate tie for the highest Scrabble score from navigate at 12 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in navigate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and navigate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are navigate and vaginate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in navigate produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with vaginae. For points, the strongest plays are vaginae, vantage, and vintage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling navigate turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, native, and vagina. For points, the strongest play is vagina — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in navigate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent and giant. For points, the strongest plays are agave, ganev, given, and vegan — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in navigate produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gate and gave. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gave, give and vagi.
Unscrambling navigate turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in navigate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in navigate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in navigate 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.
navigate 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 three senses for navigate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
navigate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing navigate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are navigate and vaginate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from navigate 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 navigate produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.