Hidden inside ternate sit entreat, ratteen, and ternate, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entreat, ratteen, and ternate tie for the highest Scrabble score from ternate at 7 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ternate: two come from rearranging its letters, and ternate 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 entreat, ratteen, and ternate, 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 ternate turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater. For points, the strongest plays are entera, natter, neater, netter, ratten, and tenter — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ternate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are antre, arene, arete, eaten, eater, enate, enter, ranee, rente, tater, tenet, terne, tetra, treat, and treen — 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 ternate produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, rate, rent, tear, and teen. For points, the strongest plays are ante, earn, erne, etna, nare, near, neat, nett, rant, rate, rent, rete, tare, tarn, tart, tate, tear, teat, teen, tent, tern, tree, and tret — 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 ternate turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ane, ant, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, ere, ern, eta, nae, nee, net, ran, rat, ree, ret, tae, tan, tar, tat, tea, tee, ten, and tet — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ternate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, 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.
Swap a single tile in ternate 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.
ternate 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 one sense for ternate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ternate is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ternate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entreat, ratteen, and ternate, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ternate 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 ternate produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.