aerating needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aerating is the highest-scoring word from aerating, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in aerating — and it is aerating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aerating produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including tearing, anergia and granita.
Unscrambling aerating turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating and rating. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including eating, rating and agnate.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aerating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent and anger. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including again, agent and anger.
Rearranging the letters in aerating produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, earn and gain. For points, 33 words tie at 5 points, including gain, gate and rage.
Unscrambling aerating turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, get and nag.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aerating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in aerating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aerating and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
aerating 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.
aerating is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aerating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aerating, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aerating 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 aerating produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.