Hidden inside predated sit departed and predated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
departed and predated tie for the highest Scrabble score from predated at 12 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in predated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and predated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are departed and predated, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in predated produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adepter, predate, retaped, and tapered, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling predated turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat and traded. For points, the strongest plays are draped and padder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, dated, taped, and trade. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including taped, adept and drape.
Rearranging the letters in predated produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dead. For points, the strongest plays are aped, deep, pard, and peed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling predated turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ape and are. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in predated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in predated 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.
predated 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.
predated is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are departed and predated, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from predated 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 predated produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.