Hidden inside separate sit asperate and separate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperate and separate tie for the highest Scrabble score from separate at 10 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in separate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and separate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separate. For points, the strongest plays are asperate and separate — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in separate produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeats. For points, the strongest plays are epaters, repeats, and retapes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling separate turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter and repeat. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including repeat, arepas and epater.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas and erase. For points, 51 words tie at 7 points, including apart, parts and pasta.
Rearranging the letters in separate produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area and arts. For points, 41 words tie at 6 points, including apes, part and past.
Unscrambling separate turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pee.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separate. 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.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in separate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in separate 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.
separate 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 nineteen senses for separate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
separate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing separate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asperate and separate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from separate 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 separate produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.