segregate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
segregate is the highest-scoring word from segregate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in segregate — and it is segregate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in segregate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eagerest, etageres, and steerage, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in segregate produces 9 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 gagster, gargets, raggees and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling segregate turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easter, grease, and greets. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including aggers, eggars and eggers.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in segregate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, erase and gates. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including agger, eggar and egger.
Rearranging the letters in segregate produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts and ears. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including eggs, gags and gage.
Unscrambling segregate turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are egg and gag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in segregate. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in segregate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in segregate 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.
segregate 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 segregate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
segregate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing segregate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is segregate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from segregate 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 segregate produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.