confederates needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1479 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confederates is the highest-scoring word from confederates, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1479 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in confederates — and it is confederates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confederates produces exactly one eleven-letter word: confederate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confederates produces 5 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defecators and forecasted, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confederates turns up 27 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decorates. For points, the strongest plays are defecates, defecator, defectors, and redefects — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 89 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confederates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, decorate, and resented. For points, 11 words tie at 14 points, including defacers, defecate and defector.
Rearranging the letters in confederates produces 178 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons, catered and centers. For points, 13 words tie at 13 points, including cornfed, crafted and crofted.
Unscrambling confederates turns up 326 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton, caters and ceased. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including decafs, forced and deface.
There are 379 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confederates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor and adore. For points, the strongest plays are decaf and faced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confederates produces 305 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and arts. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including cafe, face and fact.
Unscrambling confederates turns up 137 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and and. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confederates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
confederates 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 seven senses for confederates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
confederates is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confederates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confederates, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confederates 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 confederates produce 1479 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 5 ten-letter words, 27 nine-letter words, 89 eight-letter words, 178 seven-letter words, 326 six-letter words, 379 five-letter words, 305 four-letter words, 137 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.