Hidden inside relocate sit corelate and relocate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corelate and relocate tie for the highest Scrabble score from relocate at 10 points. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in relocate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relocate 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 corelate and relocate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in relocate produces 6 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 crotale, elector, electro and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling relocate turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereal, create, locate, and relate. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including cereal, create and locate.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relocate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert and alter. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including actor, cater and clear.
Rearranging the letters in relocate produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and coat. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including care, cart and coat.
Unscrambling relocate turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relocate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, or, and to. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including at, or and to.
16 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in relocate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relocate 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.
relocate 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 2-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 relocate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
relocate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relocate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corelate and relocate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relocate 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 relocate produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.