navigator 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, 232 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
navigator is the highest-scoring word from navigator, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 232 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in navigator — and it is navigator itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in navigator. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avigator and graviton, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in navigator produces 6 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 vagrant, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling navigator turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rating, vagina, and voting. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including vagina, voting and raving.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in navigator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, giant and grant. For points, the strongest plays are gavot, vigor, and virga — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in navigator produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, goat and into. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling navigator turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are vig and vog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in navigator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in navigator plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in navigator 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.
navigator 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 navigator. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
navigator is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing navigator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is navigator, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from navigator 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 navigator produce 232 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.