levitates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 290 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levitates is the highest-scoring word from levitates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 290 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in levitates — and it is levitates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levitates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elatives, estivate, leaviest and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in levitates produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evilest. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including evilest, elative and estival.
Unscrambling levitates turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, latest and lattes. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including leaves, vilest and evites.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levitates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alive and elves. For points, 30 words tie at 8 points, including alive, elves and leave.
Rearranging the letters in levitates produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east and eats. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including eves, evil and live.
Unscrambling levitates turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and eve. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including eve, vet and ave.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levitates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in levitates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in levitates 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.
levitates 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 levitates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
levitates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing levitates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is levitates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from levitates 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 levitates produce 290 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.