tolerates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 448 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tolerates is the highest-scoring word from tolerates, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 448 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tolerates — and it is tolerates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tolerate. For points, the strongest plays are alertest, oleaster, retotals, and tolerate — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tolerates produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letters, relates, startle, and toaster. For points, the strongest plays are areoles, elaters, estreat, latters, letters, lotters, oleates, olestra, rattles, realest, relates, reslate, restate, retaste, retotal, roseate, rosette, rotates, settler, settlor, slotter, soleret, starlet, startle, stealer, sterlet, teleost, tetrose, toaster, and trestle — 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 tolerates turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, easter, estate, latest, lattes, and letter. For points, the strongest plays are alerts, alters, areole, aretes, artels, easter, eaters, elater, elates, estate, estral, larees, laster, latest, latter, lattes, leaser, letter, lotter, lottes, oaters, oleate, orates, osetra, osteal, ostler, ottars, otters, ratels, rattle, reales, relate, relets, resale, reseal, reseat, resole, retest, rotate, rottes, salter, sealer, seater, setter, settle, slater, solate, solera, sortal, staler, stater, stator, stelae, stelar, stereo, sterol, streel, street, talers, tarots, taster, taters, teasel, teaser, testae, tester, tetras, tolars, tortas, tortes, totals, toters, and treats — 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 122 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, erase, laser, later, latte, and lease. For points, the strongest plays are alert, aloes, alter, altos, arete, arles, arose, artel, aster, earls, easel, easer, eater, elate, erase, erose, ester, laree, lares, laser, later, latte, lears, lease, least, leers, leets, lores, loser, lotas, lotsa, lotta, lotte, oater, orals, orate, orles, ottar, otter, rales, ratel, rates, ratos, reals, reels, reest, relet, resat, reset, roast, roles, roset, rotas, rotes, rotls, rotte, saree, seral, setae, setal, slate, sleet, solar, sorel, sorta, stale, stare, start, state, steal, steel, steer, stela, stele, stere, stoae, stoat, stole, store, taels, taler, tales, tares, taros, tarot, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, teals, tears, tease, teats, teels, telae, teles, telos, teres, terse, tesla, testa, tetra, toast, toeas, tolar, tolas, toles, tolts, toras, tores, torse, torta, torte, torts, total, toter, totes, treat, trees, trets, and trots — 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 tolerates produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts, last, late, lets, lose, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are aero, alee, ales, aloe, also, alto, alts, ares, aros, arse, arts, ates, lars, lase, last, late, lats, lear, leas, leer, lees, leet, lest, lets, lore, lose, lost, lota, lots, oars, oast, oats, olea, oles, oral, ores, orle, orts, osar, rale, rase, rate, rato, rats, real, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, roes, role, rose, rota, rote, rotl, rots, sale, salt, sate, seal, sear, seat, seel, seer, sera, sere, seta, sett, slat, sloe, slot, soar, sola, sole, sora, sore, sort, star, stat, stet, stoa, stot, earl, ears, ease, east, eats, eels, else, eras, eros, erst, etas, tael, tale, taos, tare, taro, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, teal, tear, teas, teat, teel, tees, tela, tele, tels, test, tets, toea, toes, tola, tole, tolt, tora, tore, tors, tort, tosa, tost, tote, tots, tree, tres, tret, trot, 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 tolerates turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, are, aro, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, eel, els, era, ere, ers, est, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, lee, let, lor, lot, oar, oat, oes, ole, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, roe, rot, sae, sal, sat, sea, see, sel, ser, set, sol, sot, tae, tao, tar, tas, tat, tea, tee, tel, tes, tet, toe, tor, and tot — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, lo, oe, or, os, re, so, ta, te, and to — 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 tolerates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tolerates 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 four senses for tolerates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tolerates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tolerates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tolerates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tolerates 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 tolerates produce 448 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 122 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.