distastes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distastes is the highest-scoring word from distastes, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in distastes — and it is distastes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distastes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assisted. For points, the strongest plays are assisted, disseats, 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.
Rearranging the letters in distastes 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 dassies, desists, disseat, and sadists, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distastes turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, states, tasted, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are asides, daises, dassie, deists, desist, disses, sadist, sassed, 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distastes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, asses, dates, diets, edits, ideas, and seats. 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 distastes produces 52 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 distastes 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 distastes. 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 distastes 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.
distastes 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 distastes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for distastes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
distastes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distastes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is distastes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from distastes 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 distastes produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.