Hidden inside nidate sit detain and nidate, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detain and nidate tie for the highest Scrabble score from nidate at 7 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nidate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nidate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detain and nidate, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nidate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anted, ident, teind, and tined, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nidate produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet, dine, edit, idea, neat, and tend. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, date, dean, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dita, dite, edit, idea, nide, tend, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nidate turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, ant, ate, die, eat, and end. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dan, den, die, din, dit, end, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nidate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in nidate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
nidate is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
nidate is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nidate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detain and nidate, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nidate 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 nidate produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.