Hidden inside eradicate sit acierated and eradicate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
acierated and eradicate tie for the highest Scrabble score from eradicate at 12 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in eradicate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and eradicate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acierated and eradicate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eradicate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acerated and radicate, 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 eradicate produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catered, created, and reacted. For points, the strongest plays are cardiae, catered, cerated, created, deciare, reacted, recited, and tierced — 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 eradicate turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with create, credit, and direct. For points, the strongest plays are acarid, acedia, arcade, cardia, caried, carted, crated, credit, dacite, decare, deceit, deicer, direct, redact, traced, and triced — 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 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eradicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, aired, cared, cater, cried, raced, and react. For points, the strongest plays are acred, acrid, acted, arced, cadet, cadre, caird, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, cider, cited, creed, cried, daric, deice, dicer, dicta, edict, raced, and riced — 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 eradicate produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, area, card, care, cart, dare, and data. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, caid, card, cede, cedi, cred, dace, dice, and iced — 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 eradicate turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, air, are, art, ate, and car. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eradicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in eradicate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in eradicate and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
eradicate 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 two senses for eradicate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
eradicate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eradicate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are acierated and eradicate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eradicate 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 eradicate produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.