reinstate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 515 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reinstate is the highest-scoring word from reinstate, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 515 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reinstate — and it is reinstate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reinstate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interest. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including interest, anisette and arenites.
Rearranging the letters in reinstate produces 58 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, entries and nastier. For points, 58 words tie at 7 points, including eastern, entries and nastier.
Unscrambling reinstate turns up 101 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, easier and easter. For points, 101 words tie at 6 points, including artist, easier and easter.
There are 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reinstate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eaten and enter. For points, 134 words tie at 5 points, including earns, eaten and enter.
Rearranging the letters in reinstate produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 111 words tie at 4 points, including airs, ants and arts.
Unscrambling reinstate turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, 66 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and are.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reinstate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
19 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reinstate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reinstate 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.
reinstate 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 reinstate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
reinstate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reinstate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reinstate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reinstate 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 reinstate produce 515 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 24 eight-letter words, 58 seven-letter words, 101 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.