postdates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 339 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postdates is the highest-scoring word from postdates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 339 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in postdates — and it is postdates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postdates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are podestas and postdate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in postdates produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spotted and toasted. For points, the strongest plays are despots, podesta, spatted, and spotted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling postdates turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts, passed, posted, states, tasted, tastes, and toasts. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, adopts, depots, despot, dopest, passed, pasted, patted, posted, potted, soaped, spades, spodes, and stoped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postdates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, dates, pasts, poets, posed, poses, and posts. For points, the strongest plays are adept, adopt, apods, depot, dopas, dopes, opted, pated, posed, spade, spado, spaed, spode, taped, and toped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in postdates produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, date, does, dots, east, eats, and pads. For points, the strongest plays are aped, apod, daps, deps, dopa, dope, oped, pads, peds, pods, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling postdates turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, ass, ate, dot, eat, and pad. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postdates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 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 postdates 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.
postdates 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 postdates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
postdates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postdates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is postdates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from postdates 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 postdates produce 339 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.