Hidden inside relocates sit corelates and relocates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 627 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corelates and relocates tie for the highest Scrabble score from relocates at 11 points. The top 10 of 627 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in relocates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relocates 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 corelates and relocates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relocates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearest. For points, the strongest plays are clearest, corelate, corselet, crotales, electors, electros, escarole, locaters, relocate, sectoral, selector, and treacles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relocates produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals, coaster, creates, locates, and relates. For points, the strongest plays are acerose, acetose, cartels, celesta, cerates, cereals, clarets, claroes, coalers, coaster, coatees, coaters, colters, corslet, costrel, creates, creoles, crestal, crotale, ecartes, elector, electro, escolar, lactose, lectors, locater, locates, ocreate, oracles, recoals, recoats, relaces, rescale, scarlet, sclerae, scrotal, solacer, talcose, tercels, and treacle — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relocates turns up 115 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, alerts, alters, castle, caters, cereal, and clears. For points, the strongest plays are actors, carets, carles, carols, cartel, cartes, caster, castle, castor, caters, ceorls, cerate, cereal, certes, claret, claros, clears, cleats, closer, closet, coaler, coarse, coatee, coater, colter, corals, corset, costae, costal, costar, coster, crates, crease, create, creels, creole, cresol, ecarte, eclats, eclose, elects, erects, escort, lacers, lector, locate, ocreae, ocreas, oracle, reacts, recast, recoal, recoat, rectal, rectos, relace, resect, rosace, scaler, sclera, scoter, scrota, secret, sector, select, solace, tarocs, telcos, tercel, terces, and traces — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 170 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relocates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert, alter, cares, carts, cater, and cease. For points, the strongest plays are acres, acros, actor, alecs, ascot, calos, cares, caret, carle, carls, carol, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cease, celts, ceorl, ceres, ceros, certs, cesta, cetes, claro, clast, clear, cleat, close, clots, coals, coast, coats, colas, coles, colts, coral, cores, corse, coset, costa, cotes, crate, creel, crest, eclat, elect, erect, escar, escot, lacer, laces, ocrea, octal, orcas, oscar, races, react, recta, recto, scale, scare, scart, score, scree, serac, socle, taces, tacos, talcs, taroc, telco, terce, torcs, and trace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relocates produces 173 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, arts, last, late, lets, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acro, acts, alec, arco, arcs, lace, lacs, loca, locs, ocas, orca, orcs, race, recs, rocs, scar, scat, scot, sect, soca, calo, cals, care, carl, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cels, celt, cere, cero, cert, cete, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, cols, colt, core, cors, cost, cote, cots, ecos, tace, taco, talc, tecs, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relocates turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, cal, car, cat, cee, cel, col, cor, cos, cot, eco, lac, loc, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, soc, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relocates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, lo, oe, or, os, re, so, ta, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in relocates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relocates 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.
relocates 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 two senses for relocates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
relocates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relocates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corelates and relocates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relocates 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 relocates produce 627 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 115 six-letter words, 170 five-letter words, 173 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.