Hidden inside distaste sit distaste and staidest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distaste and staidest tie for the highest Scrabble score from distaste at 9 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in distaste: one comes from rearranging its letters, and distaste 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 distaste and staidest, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling distaste produces exactly one seven-letter word: disseat. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling distaste turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with states, tasted, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are asides, daises, dassie, deists, desist, sadist, stades, stated, steads, tasted, tsades, and tsadis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates, diets, edits, ideas, seats, and sides. For points, the strongest plays are adits, aides, aside, atted, dates, deist, desis, diets, ditas, dites, edits, ideas, sades, sadis, saids, sated, sides, sited, stade, staid, stead, stied, tased, tides, tsade, and tsadi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in distaste produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date, dies, diet, east, eats, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, dais, date, desi, dies, diet, diss, dita, dite, dits, edit, idea, ides, sade, sadi, said, side, tads, teds, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distaste turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ass, ate, die, eat, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, das, die, dis, dit, eds, ids, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 distaste 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.
distaste 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 distaste carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for distaste. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
distaste is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distaste unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are distaste and staidest, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from distaste 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 distaste produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 18 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.