Hidden inside separates sit asperates and separates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperates and separates tie for the highest Scrabble score from separates at 11 points. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in separates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and separates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separates. For points, the strongest plays are asperates and separates — 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 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separate. For points, the strongest plays are asperate, separate, and trapeses — 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 separates produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters, repeats, and sparest. For points, the strongest plays are asperse, epaters, pareses, pasters, pesetas, pesters, presets, repasts, repeats, retapes, sarapes, satraps, serapes, and sparest — 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 separates turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, erases, pastas, repeat, spares, stares, and steers. For points, the strongest plays are arepas, aspers, epater, etapes, parses, passee, passer, pastas, paster, pastes, paters, peases, perses, peseta, pester, peters, prases, prates, preset, prests, repass, repast, repeat, retape, sarape, satrap, serape, spares, sparse, spates, spears, speers, sprats, sprees, stapes, steeps, straps, streps, tapers, and trapes — 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 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas, eases, erase, parts, pasta, and pasts. For points, the strongest plays are apart, apers, apres, apses, apter, arepa, asper, ataps, etape, parae, paras, pares, parse, parts, pases, passe, pasta, paste, pasts, pater, pates, pears, peart, pease, peats, peers, perea, peres, perse, pests, peter, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, press, prest, rapes, rasps, reaps, seeps, septa, septs, spaes, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, speer, sprat, spree, steep, steps, strap, strep, tapas, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, and traps — 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 separates produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area, arts, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, atap, para, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peer, pees, pere, pert, pest, pets, prat, pree, psst, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, saps, seep, seps, sept, spae, spar, spas, spat, step, tapa, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — 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 separates turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, and tap — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 separates 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.
separates 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.
separates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing separates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asperates and separates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from separates 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 separates produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.