underrates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 673 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underrates is the highest-scoring word from underrates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 673 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in underrates — and it is underrates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling underrates turns up 9 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denatures, renatured, sauntered and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrested, returned, and treasure. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including arrested, returned and daunters.
Rearranging the letters in underrates produces 67 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern and errands. For points, 40 words tie at 8 points, including dearest, errands and retards.
Unscrambling underrates turns up 144 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, dearer and desert. For points, 73 words tie at 7 points, including dearer, desert and earned.
There are 173 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, dares and dates. For points, 82 words tie at 6 points, including dares, dates and dears.
Rearranging the letters in underrates produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and arts. For points, 61 words tie at 5 points, including need, nerd and nude.
Unscrambling underrates turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and due.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in underrates plus one additional letter.
underrates 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 underrates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
underrates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underrates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is underrates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from underrates 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 underrates produce 673 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 nine-letter words, 28 eight-letter words, 67 seven-letter words, 144 six-letter words, 173 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.