Hidden inside percolated sit percolated and prelocated, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 698 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percolated and prelocated tie for the highest Scrabble score from percolated at 15 points. The top 10 of 698 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in percolated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and percolated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are percolated and prelocated, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling percolated turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are percolate and prelocate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percolated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decorate, operated, and replaced. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including replaced, carpeted and clodpate.
Rearranging the letters in percolated produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered, catered and cleared. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including capered, coapted and pedocal.
Unscrambling percolated turns up 112 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, cereal and colder. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including placed, carped and cleped.
There are 168 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percolated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor and adopt. For points, the strongest plays are caped, coped, and paced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in percolated produces 192 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, card and care. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including cape, clap and crap.
Unscrambling percolated turns up 113 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and are. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and cep.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percolated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and do. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in percolated plus one additional letter.
percolated 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.
percolated is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percolated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percolated and prelocated, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from percolated 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 percolated produce 698 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 112 six-letter words, 168 five-letter words, 192 four-letter words, 113 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.