substantiate needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 594 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
substantiate is the highest-scoring word from substantiate, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 594 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in substantiate — and it is substantiate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling substantiate turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abattises, antiabuse, battiness, and intubates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substantiate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest and tastiest. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including abatises, abstains and basinets.
Rearranging the letters in substantiate produces 58 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with busiest and statues. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including busiest, abattis and absents.
Unscrambling substantiate turns up 93 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, anuses and beasts. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including abuses, beasts and bitten.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substantiate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, aunts and baits. For points, 55 words tie at 7 points, including abuse, baits and bases.
Rearranging the letters in substantiate produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 60 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bans and base.
Unscrambling substantiate turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and ate. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bat and bet.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substantiate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 thirteen-letter words can be made using all the letters in substantiate plus one additional letter.
substantiate 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 3-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 substantiate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
substantiate is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing substantiate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is substantiate, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from substantiate 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 substantiate produce 594 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 10 nine-letter words, 33 eight-letter words, 58 seven-letter words, 93 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.