Hidden inside artistes sit artistes, artsiest, and striates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 254 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artistes, artsiest, and striates tie for the highest Scrabble score from artistes at 8 points. The top 10 of 254 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in artistes: two come from rearranging its letters, and artistes 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 artistes, artsiest, and striates, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in artistes produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, sitters, and tastier. For points, the strongest plays are artiest, artiste, artists, artsies, attires, iratest, ratites, satires, sitters, starets, staters, straits, striate, tasters, tastier, and tsarist — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling artistes turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, raises, resist, sister, sitter, stairs, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are airest, arises, artist, artsie, assert, asters, attire, raises, ratite, resist, resits, satire, serais, siesta, sister, sistra, sitars, sitter, stairs, stares, starts, stater, states, strait, strati, striae, tasers, tasset, tassie, taster, tastes, taters, terais, testis, tetras, tetris, titers, titres, traits, treats, and triste — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artistes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates, rests, rises, seats, sites, and stair. For points, the strongest plays are airts, arise, arses, arsis, asset, aster, astir, easts, irate, raise, rases, rates, reais, resat, resit, rests, retia, rises, rites, saris, sates, satis, sears, seats, serai, setts, sires, sitar, sites, stair, stare, stars, start, state, stats, stets, sties, stirs, stria, tares, tarsi, tarts, taser, tases, tasse, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, terai, testa, tests, tetra, tetri, tiers, tires, titer, titre, trait, trass, treat, tress, trets, tries, trite, and tsars — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in artistes produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, ares, arie, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, ests, etas, ires, rais, rase, rate, rats, reis, rest, rets, rias, rise, rite, sari, sate, sati, sear, seas, seat, seis, sera, sers, seta, sets, sett, sire, sirs, site, sits, sris, star, stat, stet, stir, tare, tars, tart, tase, tass, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, test, tets, tier, ties, tire, tits, tres, tret, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling artistes turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, ait, are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, ers, ess, est, eta, ire, its, rai, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sat, sea, sei, ser, set, sir, sis, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tes, tet, tie, tis, and tit — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artistes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 artistes 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.
artistes 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in artistes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for artistes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
artistes is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing artistes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are artistes, artsiest, and striates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from artistes 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 artistes produce 254 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.