Hidden inside separated sit asperated and separated, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 404 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperated and separated tie for the highest Scrabble score from separated at 12 points. The top 10 of 404 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in separated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and separated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separated. For points, the strongest plays are asperated and separated — each worth 12 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 separated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separate. For points, the strongest plays are adapters, pederast, predates, readapts, repasted, and trapesed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in separated produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, parades, and repeats. For points, the strongest plays are adapter, adepter, departs, parades, petards, predate, readapt, respade, retaped, speared, and tapered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling separated turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, easter, erased, parade, repeat, rested, and seated. For points, the strongest plays are adapts, adepts, depart, drapes, padres, parade, pardee, parsed, parted, pasted, pedate, pesade, petard, prated, rasped, reaped, spader, spared, and spread — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas, dares, dates, dears, deers, and eased. For points, the strongest plays are adapt, adept, deeps, drape, padre, pards, pared, pated, pedes, preed, raped, spade, spaed, speed, and taped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in separated produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area, arts, dare, data, date, and dear. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deep, deps, pads, pard, peds, peed, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling separated turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 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 separated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 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 separated 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.
separated 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 four senses for separated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
separated is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing separated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asperated and separated, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from separated 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 separated produce 404 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.