Hidden inside operates sit operates and protease, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 376 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
operates and protease tie for the highest Scrabble score from operates at 10 points. The top 10 of 376 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in operates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and operates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operates. For points, the strongest plays are operates and protease — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in operates produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operate and repeats. For points, the strongest plays are epaters, esparto, operate, proteas, repeats, retapes, and seaport — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling operates turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, operas, poster, and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are epater, etapes, operas, pareos, paster, pastor, paters, peseta, pester, peters, poster, prates, preset, presto, protea, repast, repeat, repose, repost, repots, respot, retape, sapote, serape, soaper, stoper, tapers, topees, topers, trapes, and tropes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in operates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, opera, parts, poets, rates, roast, and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are apers, aport, apres, apter, asper, estop, etape, opera, pareo, pares, parse, parts, paseo, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, pease, peats, peers, perea, peres, perse, pesto, peter, poets, pores, ports, poser, praos, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, prest, proas, prose, prost, psoae, rapes, reaps, repos, repot, ropes, sapor, septa, spare, spate, spear, speer, spore, sport, sprat, spree, steep, stope, strap, strep, strop, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, topee, toper, topes, traps, and trope — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in operates produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, part, past, peas, pees, and pets. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apos, apse, atop, opas, opes, opts, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peer, pees, pere, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, prao, prat, pree, proa, pros, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, seep, sept, soap, spae, spar, spat, spot, step, stop, epos, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tope, tops, trap, and trop — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling operates turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apo, apt, asp, opa, ope, ops, opt, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, per, pes, pet, pos, pot, pro, pst, rap, rep, sap, sop, spa, tap, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in operates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in operates 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.
operates 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for operates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
operates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing operates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are operates and protease, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from operates 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 operates produce 376 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.