Hidden inside nidates sit destain, detains, instead and 4 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
destain, detains, instead and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from nidates at 8 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 seven-letter words hiding in nidates: six come from rearranging its letters, and nidates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instead. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including instead, destain and detains.
Unscrambling nidates turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detain, idents, nidate and 3 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nidates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates and diets. For points, 34 words tie at 6 points, including aside, dates and diets.
Rearranging the letters in nidates produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants and date. For points, 37 words tie at 5 points, including aids, date and dies.
Unscrambling nidates turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and and. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and and.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nidates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in nidates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nidates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
nidates 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.
nidates is one of seven seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nidates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are destain, detains, instead, nidates, sainted, satined, and stained, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nidates 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 nidates produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.