Hidden inside astatines sit astatines and sanitates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
astatines and sanitates tie for the highest Scrabble score from astatines at 9 points. The top 10 of 244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in astatines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and astatines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astatines and sanitates, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astatines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest. For points, the strongest plays are antsiest, astatine, entasias, instates, nastiest, sanitate, satanist, satiates, satinets, and titaness — 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 astatines produces 15 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, entasis, instate, nasties, satiate, satinet, seitans, sestina, statins, taenias, tanists, tansies, and tisanes, 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 astatines turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saints, sanest, stains, states, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are anises, ansate, assent, attain, insets, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, satins, seitan, siesta, sitten, stains, stanes, states, statin, steins, stents, stints, taenia, taints, tanist, tasset, tassie, tastes, tenias, testis, 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astatines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, saint, seats, sites, stain, state, and stats. For points, the strongest plays are anise, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antis, assai, asset, easts, entia, etnas, inset, nates, neats, neist, nests, netts, nites, sains, saint, sanes, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seats, sensa, senti, sents, setts, sines, sites, snits, stain, stane, stans, state, stats, stein, stent, stets, sties, stint, tains, taint, tases, tasse, taste, tates, teats, teins, tenia, tents, testa, tests, 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 astatines produces 64 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, ests, etas, etna, naes, neat, ness, nest, nets, nett, nite, nits, sain, sane, sans, sate, sati, seas, seat, seis, sent, seta, sets, sett, sine, sins, site, sits, snit, stan, stat, stet, tain, tans, tase, tass, 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 astatines turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, its, net, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aas, ain, ais, ait, ana, ane, ani, ant, ass, ate, ats, att, eat, ens, ess, est, eta, ins, its, nae, net, nit, sae, san, sat, sea, sei, sen, set, sin, sis, 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 astatines. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in astatines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in astatines and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
astatines 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 astatines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
astatines is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astatines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are astatines and sanitates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astatines 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 astatines produce 244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.