Hidden inside translate sit alterants, tarletans, and translate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 365 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alterants, tarletans, and translate tie for the highest Scrabble score from translate at 9 points. The top 10 of 365 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in translate: two come from rearranging its letters, and translate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with translate. For points, the strongest plays are alterants, tarletans, and translate — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in translate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alterant, asternal, atlantes, slattern, and tarletan, 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 translate produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with startle and talents. For points, the strongest plays are antlers, arsenal, latents, lattens, latters, natters, rattans, rattens, rattles, rentals, saltant, saltern, santera, sealant, starlet, startle, sternal, stratal, talents, tantras, tartans, and tetanal — 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 translate turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars, alters, latest, lattes, learns, and talent. For points, the strongest plays are alants, alates, alerts, altars, alters, anears, ansate, antler, antral, antres, arenas, artels, aslant, astern, astral, attars, estral, lanate, laster, latens, latent, latest, latten, latter, lattes, learns, learnt, natter, ratals, ratans, ratels, rattan, ratten, rattle, reatas, rental, salter, slater, staler, statal, stater, stelar, sterna, strata, talars, talent, talers, tantra, tarnal, tarsal, tartan, taster, tatars, taters, tetras, 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 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in translate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, altar, alter, areas, earns, lanes, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are alane, alans, alant, alate, alert, altar, alter, anear, anlas, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antra, antre, areal, areas, arena, arles, artal, artel, aster, atlas, attar, earls, earns, elans, etnas, lanes, lares, larns, larnt, laser, laten, later, latte, leans, leant, learn, lears, least, nalas, nares, nasal, natal, nates, nears, neats, nerts, netts, rales, rants, ratal, ratan, ratel, rates, reals, reata, renal, rents, resat, salat, saner, saran, seral, setal, slant, slate, snare, snarl, stale, stane, stare, start, state, steal, stela, stent, stern, taels, talar, talas, taler, tales, tares, tarns, tarts, taser, taste, tatar, tater, tates, teals, tears, teats, tents, terns, tesla, testa, tetra, trans, treat, and trets — 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 translate produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, area, arts, earn, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aals, alae, alan, alar, alas, ales, alts, anal, anas, anes, ansa, anta, ante, ants, area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, earl, earn, ears, east, eats, elan, eras, erns, erst, etas, etna, lane, larn, lars, lase, last, late, lats, lean, lear, leas, lens, lent, lest, lets, naes, nala, nare, near, neat, nest, nets, nett, rale, rant, rase, rate, rats, real, rent, rest, rets, sale, salt, sane, sate, seal, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, sett, slat, stan, star, stat, stet, tael, tala, tale, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, teal, tear, teas, teat, tela, tels, tens, tent, tern, test, tets, tres, tret, 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 translate turns up 55 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 aal, aas, ala, ale, als, alt, ana, ane, ant, are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, els, ens, era, ern, ers, est, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, let, nae, net, ran, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sal, san, sat, sea, sel, sen, ser, set, tae, tan, tar, tas, tat, tea, tel, ten, tes, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in translate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, al, an, ar, as, at, el, en, er, es, et, la, 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in translate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in translate 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.
translate 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 ten senses for translate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
translate is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing translate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alterants, tarletans, and translate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from translate 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 translate produce 365 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.