ulcerates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 532 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ulcerates is the highest-scoring word from ulcerates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 532 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ulcerates — and it is ulcerates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulcerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearest, cruelest, and lectures. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including clearest, cruelest and lectures.
Rearranging the letters in ulcerates produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals, creates, lecture, and relates. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including cereals, creates and lecture.
Unscrambling ulcerates turns up 108 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and castle. For points, 62 words tie at 8 points, including castle, caters and cereal.
There are 154 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulcerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and cares. For points, 72 words tie at 7 points, including cares, carts and cater.
Rearranging the letters in ulcerates produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts and care. For points, 45 words tie at 6 points, including acts, care and cars.
Unscrambling ulcerates turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulcerates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and us.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ulcerates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ulcerates 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.
ulcerates 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 two senses for ulcerates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ulcerates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ulcerates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ulcerates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ulcerates 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 ulcerates produce 532 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 108 six-letter words, 154 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.