Hidden inside predates sit pederast, predates, repasted and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 367 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pederast, predates, repasted and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from predates at 11 points. The top 10 of 367 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in predates: three come from rearranging its letters, and predates 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 pederast, predates, repasted, and trapesed, 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 predates produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest and repeats. For points, the strongest plays are adepter, departs, petards, predate, respade, retaped, speared, and tapered — 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 predates turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, easter, erased, repeat, rested, seated, and spared. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, depart, drapes, padres, pardee, parsed, parted, pasted, pedate, pesade, petard, prated, rasped, reaped, spader, spared, and spread — 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 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, deers, eased, erase, and parts. For points, the strongest plays are adept, deeps, drape, padre, pards, pared, pated, pedes, preed, raped, spade, spaed, speed, and taped — 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 predates produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, dare, date, dear, deep, and deer. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deep, deps, pads, pard, peds, peed, 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 predates turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 predates 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.
predates 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 four senses for predates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
predates is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pederast, predates, repasted, and trapesed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from predates 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 predates produce 367 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.