postulate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 437 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postulate is the highest-scoring word from postulate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 437 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in postulate — and it is postulate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postulate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outleaps, outleapt, outslept and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postulate produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outlets. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including apostle, outleap and outstep.
Unscrambling postulate turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latest, lattes and outlet. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including plates, aptest and aslope.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postulate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, latte and leaps. For points, 64 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, leapt and pause.
Rearranging the letters in postulate produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes and auto. For points, 66 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling postulate turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate and eat. For points, 33 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postulate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and so. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including up, op and pa.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in postulate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postulate 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.
postulate 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for postulate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
postulate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postulate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is postulate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from postulate 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 postulate produce 437 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.