Hidden inside astatine sit astatine and sanitate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
astatine and sanitate tie for the highest Scrabble score from astatine at 8 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in astatine: one comes from rearranging its letters, and astatine 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 astatine and sanitate, 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 astatine produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aetatis, attains, entasia, instate, satiate, satinet, and taenias, 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 astatine turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ansate, attain, seitan, sitten, statin, taenia, taints, tanist, tenias, tineas, tisane, and titans, 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astatine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, stain, state, taste, and tents. For points, the strongest plays are anise, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antis, entia, etnas, inset, nates, neats, neist, netts, nites, saint, satin, senti, stain, stane, state, stein, stent, stint, tains, taint, taste, tates, teats, teins, tenia, tents, testa, tians, tinea, tines, tints, and titan — 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 astatine produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, neat, nest, nets, and sane. For points, the strongest plays are ains, aits, anas, anes, anis, ansa, anta, ante, anti, ants, asea, ates, east, eats, etas, etna, naes, neat, nest, nets, nett, nite, nits, sain, sane, sate, sati, seat, sent, seta, sett, sine, site, snit, stan, stat, stet, tain, tans, tase, tate, tats, teas, teat, tein, tens, tent, test, tets, tian, ties, tine, tins, tint, and tits — 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 astatine turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, its, net, sat, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aas, ain, ais, ait, ana, ane, ani, ant, ate, ats, att, eat, ens, est, eta, ins, its, nae, net, nit, sae, san, sat, sea, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, tae, tan, tas, tat, tea, ten, tes, tet, tie, tin, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astatine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, 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 astatine 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.
astatine 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 one sense for astatine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
astatine is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astatine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are astatine and sanitate, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astatine 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 astatine produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.