Hidden inside radiates sit airdates, dataries, and radiates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 290 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
airdates, dataries, and radiates tie for the highest Scrabble score from radiates at 9 points. The top 10 of 290 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in radiates: two come from rearranging its letters, and radiates 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 airdates, dataries, and radiates, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in radiates produces 13 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 airdate, aridest, astride, diaster, disrate, radiate, staider, tardies, tiaraed, and tirades, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling radiates turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, raised, stadia, stared, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are aiders, airted, daters, deairs, derats, direst, driest, irades, raised, redias, resaid, stadia, stared, stride, tirade, trades, treads, and triads — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in radiates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, areas, aside, dares, dates, dears, and diets. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aider, aides, aired, aside, dares, darts, dater, dates, deair, dears, deist, derat, diets, dirts, ditas, dites, drats, drest, dries, edits, ideas, irade, raids, rased, rated, reads, redia, resid, rides, sated, sired, sited, stade, staid, stead, stied, tared, tased, tides, tired, trade, trads, tread, triad, tried, tsade, and tsadi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in radiates produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, area, arts, dare, data, and date. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, arid, dais, dare, dart, data, date, dear, desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dita, dite, dits, drat, edit, idea, ides, ired, rads, raid, read, reds, ride, rids, sade, sadi, said, sard, side, tads, teds, tide, tied, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling radiates turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, das, die, dis, dit, eds, ids, rad, red, rid, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in radiates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 radiates 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.
radiates 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in radiates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record ten senses for radiates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
radiates is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing radiates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airdates, dataries, and radiates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from radiates 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 radiates produce 290 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.