Hidden inside sedative sit deviates and sedative, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deviates and sedative tie for the highest Scrabble score from sedative at 12 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sedative: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sedative itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deviates and sedative, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sedative produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are advisee, datives, deviate, and vistaed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sedative turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are advise, dative, davies, davits, deaves, devest, devise, divest, evades, evited, sieved, staved, vested, visaed, and viseed — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates, diets, dives, eased, edits, and ideas. For points, the strongest plays are davit, deave, devas, devis, divas, dives, eaved, evade, saved, and vised — 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 sedative produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date, dies, diet, dive, ease, and east. For points, the strongest plays are avid, deva, devi, devs, diva, dive, vide, vids, and vied — 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 sedative turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ate, die, eat, eve, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, 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.
Swap a single tile in sedative and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
sedative 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 sedative. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sedative is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sedative unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deviates and sedative, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sedative 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 sedative produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.