Hidden inside underrate sit renatured and underrate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 250 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
renatured and underrate tie for the highest Scrabble score from underrate at 10 points. The top 10 of 250 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in underrate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and underrate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are renatured and underrate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with returned. For points, the strongest plays are denature, returned, underate, and undereat — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in underrate produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are daunter, denture, endurer and 7 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling underrate turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, earned and errand. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including dearer, earned and errand.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter and nuder. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including nuder, ruder and trade.
Rearranging the letters in underrate produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, dare and date. For points, 38 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling underrate turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including and, due and end.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in underrate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in underrate 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.
underrate 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 one sense for underrate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
underrate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underrate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are renatured and underrate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underrate 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 underrate produce 250 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.