Hidden inside assist sit assist and stasis, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assist and stasis tie for the highest Scrabble score from assist at 6 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in assist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist. For points, the strongest plays are assist and stasis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling assist produces exactly one five-letter word: satis. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in assist produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sits. For points, the strongest plays are aits, sass, sati, sits, and tass — 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 assist turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, its, sat, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ais, ait, ass, ats, its, sat, sis, sit, tas, and tis — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ai, as, at, is, it, si, ta, 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 assist and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
assist 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 assist carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for assist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
assist is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assist and stasis, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assist 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 assist produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.