postdate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postdate is the highest-scoring word from postdate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in postdate — and it is postdate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postdate produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spotted and toasted. For points, the strongest plays are podesta, spatted, and spotted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling postdate turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts, posted, and tasted. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including adopts, posted and adepts.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postdate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, dates and poets. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including adopt, posed and taped.
Rearranging the letters in postdate produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, date and does. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including pads, aped and apod.
Unscrambling postdate turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postdate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in postdate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postdate 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.
postdate 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for postdate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
postdate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postdate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is postdate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from postdate 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 postdate produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.