Hidden inside astuteness sit astuteness and tautnesses, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
astuteness and tautnesses tie for the highest Scrabble score from astuteness at 10 points. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in astuteness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and astuteness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astuteness and tautnesses, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling astuteness produces exactly one nine-letter word: tetanuses. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astuteness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statuses. For points, the strongest plays are sensates, statuses, tautness, and unstates — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in astuteness produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estates, neatest and statues. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including estates, neatest and statues.
Unscrambling astuteness turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anuses, estate and sanest. For points, 47 words tie at 6 points, including anuses, estate and sanest.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astuteness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, aunts and eases. For points, 59 words tie at 5 points, including asses, aunts and eases.
Rearranging the letters in astuteness produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 65 words tie at 4 points, including ants, anus and aunt.
Unscrambling astuteness turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and ate. For points, 45 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ass and ate.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astuteness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
astuteness 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for astuteness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
astuteness is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astuteness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are astuteness and tautnesses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astuteness 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 astuteness produce 259 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.