Hidden inside astute sit astute and statue, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
astute and statue tie for the highest Scrabble score from astute at 6 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in astute: one comes from rearranging its letters, and astute itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statue. For points, the strongest plays are astute and statue — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astute. If a familiar word is all you need, start with state and taste. For points, the strongest plays are saute, state, sutta, taste, tates, tauts, teats, and testa — 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 astute produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, seat, stat, teas, and test. For points, the strongest plays are ates, east, eats, etas, sate, seat, seta, sett, stat, stet, suet, tase, tate, tats, taus, taut, teas, teat, test, tets, tuts, utas, and utes — 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 astute turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, sat, sea, set, sue, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ate, ats, att, eat, eau, est, eta, sae, sat, sau, sea, set, sue, tae, tas, tat, tau, tea, tes, tet, tut, use, uta, ute, and uts — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astute. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, as, at, es, et, ta, te, us, and ut — 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 astute 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.
astute 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 astute. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
astute is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astute unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are astute and statue, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astute 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 astute produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.