Unscramble IRRADIATE and you have 186 words, IRRADIATE itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Counting the words from IRRADIATE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 7 with 7, 21 with 6, 46 with 5, 55 with 4, 37 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 46 5-letter words from IRRADIATE, 29 score 6 points, the group's best. TRADE, RATED and TRIED are the ones most people know.
55 4-letter words you get when you unscramble IRRADIATE; 32 of them share the top score of 5. DATE, DATA and READ are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of IRRADIATE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with IR · ending in TE · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with AIRDATE, DIRTIER, RADIATE, TARDIER, TARRIED and TIARAED (8 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. IRRADIATE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRRADIATE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 186) | 139 | 185 | 134 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
46 of the 186 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ADRATE, ARRIDE, DARTRE, IDEATA, RAITED, TARAIRE, TIRRED, TRADIE, ARDRI, AREAD, DARRE, RAIRD and 34 more. 5 of the 186 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: RAITA, ARIE, DA, RAI and TE. 1 of the 186 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
Each word below uses all the letters of IRRADIATE and one more.