Hidden inside relegates sit eglateres, regelates, and relegates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 375 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eglateres, regelates, and relegates tie for the highest Scrabble score from relegates at 10 points. The top 10 of 375 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in relegates: two come from rearranging its letters, and relegates 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 eglateres, regelates, and relegates, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relegates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eagerest, eglatere, etageres, legatees, regelate, relegate, and steerage, 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 relegates produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with largest, relates, and release. For points, the strongest plays are eaglets, ergates, etagere, galeres, gelates, largest, legatee, legates, regales, reglets, restage, segetal, and telegas — 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 relegates turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, alerts, alters, easter, grease, greets, and relate. For points, the strongest plays are aglets, agrees, argles, eagers, eagles, eaglet, eagres, egesta, egrets, ergate, galere, gaster, gaters, gelate, gelees, glares, gleets, grates, grease, greats, greets, lagers, larges, legate, legers, ragees, regale, reglet, retags, stager, targes, telega, and tergal — 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 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relegates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alert, alter, erase, gates, geese, and great. For points, the strongest plays are agers, aglee, aglet, agree, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, egers, egest, egret, gales, gater, gates, gears, geese, geest, gelee, gelts, geste, getas, glare, glees, gleet, grate, great, grees, greet, lager, large, leger, leges, ragee, rages, regal, reges, retag, sager, sarge, serge, stage, targe, and terga — 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 relegates produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and else. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, egal, eger, ergs, gaes, gale, gals, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gees, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, glee, grat, gree, lags, legs, rage, rags, regs, sage, slag, stag, tags, and tegs — 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 relegates turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gat, gee, gel, get, lag, leg, rag, reg, sag, seg, tag, and teg — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relegates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — 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 relegates 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.
relegates 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 four senses for relegates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
relegates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relegates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eglateres, regelates, and relegates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relegates 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 relegates produce 375 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.