Hidden inside lustrate sit lustrate and tutelars, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 272 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lustrate and tutelars tie for the highest Scrabble score from lustrate at 8 points. The top 10 of 272 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lustrate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lustrate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lustrate and tutelars, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lustrate produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with startle and turtles. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including startle, turtles and estrual.
Unscrambling lustrate turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and latest. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, alters and latest.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lustrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and laser. For points, 68 words tie at 5 points, including alert, alter and laser.
Rearranging the letters in lustrate produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 89 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and east.
Unscrambling lustrate turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 52 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lustrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and us.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in lustrate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lustrate 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.
lustrate 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 one sense for lustrate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lustrate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lustrate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lustrate and tutelars, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lustrate 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 lustrate produce 272 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.