probated needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
probated is the highest-scoring word from probated, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in probated — and it is probated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in probated produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborted. For points, the strongest play is probate — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling probated turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is probed, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, adopt and adore. For points, the strongest plays are probe and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in probated produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, bare and bear. For points, the strongest play is prob — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling probated turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and be. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
Swap a single tile in probated 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.
probated 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.
probated is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing probated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is probated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from probated 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 probated produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.