Hidden inside urticates sit rusticate and urticates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 471 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rusticate and urticates tie for the highest Scrabble score from urticates at 11 points. The top 10 of 471 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in urticates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and urticates 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 rusticate and urticates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urticates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citrates, cristate, eustatic and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in urticates produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tastier. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including acutest, astrict and atresic.
Unscrambling urticates turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, attics and caters. For points, 52 words tie at 8 points, including attics, caters and cruise.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urticates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cares and carts. For points, 75 words tie at 7 points, including attic, cares and carts.
Rearranging the letters in urticates produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and arts. For points, 43 words tie at 6 points, including acts, care and cars.
Unscrambling urticates turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and are. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urticates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in urticates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in urticates 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.
urticates 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 two senses for urticates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
urticates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing urticates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rusticate and urticates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from urticates 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 urticates produce 471 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.