Hidden inside saturating sit antitragus and saturating, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 444 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antitragus and saturating tie for the highest Scrabble score from saturating at 11 points. The top 10 of 444 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in saturating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and saturating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antitragus and saturating, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saturating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starting and trusting. For points, the strongest plays are granitas, guaranis, starting, and trusting — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in saturating produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with against, guitars and ratings. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including against, guitars and ratings.
Unscrambling saturating turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, giants and grants. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including giants, grants and guitar.
There are 122 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saturating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, aunts and gains. For points, 56 words tie at 6 points, including again, gains and giant.
Rearranging the letters in saturating produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and anus. For points, 55 words tie at 5 points, including gain, guns and guts.
Unscrambling saturating turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 21 words tie at 4 points, including gas, gun and gut.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saturating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
saturating 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
saturating is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saturating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antitragus and saturating, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saturating 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 saturating produce 444 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 122 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.