undulates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 346 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undulates is the highest-scoring word from undulates, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 346 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in undulates — and it is undulates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undulates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are undulate and unsalted, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undulates 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 auldest, dentals, lunated and 6 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling undulates turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, dental and lasted. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including adults, dental and lasted.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undulates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, aunts and dates. For points, 48 words tie at 6 points, including adult, dates and deals.
Rearranging the letters in undulates produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 45 words tie at 5 points, including date, deal and dust.
Unscrambling undulates turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 18 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 undulates. 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.
Swap a single tile in undulates 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.
undulates 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for undulates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
undulates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undulates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is undulates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from undulates 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 undulates produce 346 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.