Hidden inside serrate sit retears, serrate, and tearers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retears, serrate, and tearers tie for the highest Scrabble score from serrate at 7 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in serrate: two come from rearranging its letters, and serrate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retears, serrate, and tearers, 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 serrate turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, arrest, easter, eaters, eraser, rarest, raster, raters, reseat, rester, retear, searer, seater, starer, tarres, tearer, teaser, terrae, terras, and terser — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, stare, steer, tears, tease, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are arete, aster, easer, eater, erase, ester, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, reest, resat, reset, saree, serer, setae, stare, steer, stere, tares, tarre, taser, tears, tease, teres, terra, terse, and trees — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in serrate produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, star, tare, tars, tase, tear, teas, tees, tree, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling serrate turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, ere, err, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, and tes — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
37 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in serrate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in serrate and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
serrate 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in serrate carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for serrate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
serrate is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing serrate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retears, serrate, and tearers, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from serrate 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 serrate produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.