Hidden inside sulfates sit flatuses and sulfates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 224 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flatuses and sulfates tie for the highest Scrabble score from sulfates at 11 points. The top 10 of 224 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sulfates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sulfates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flatuses and sulfates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sulfates produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falsest. For points, the strongest plays are falsest, fatless, futsals, and sulfate — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sulfates turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faults, flutes, safest, and steals. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including faults, flutes and safest.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sulfates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with false, fates and fault. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including false, fates and fault.
Rearranging the letters in sulfates produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and fast. For points, 25 words tie at 7 points, including fast, fate and felt.
Unscrambling sulfates turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and eat. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including elf, fat and flu.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sulfates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in sulfates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sulfates 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.
sulfates 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for sulfates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sulfates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sulfates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flatuses and sulfates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sulfates 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 sulfates produce 224 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.