Hidden inside esteem sit esteem and mestee, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
esteem and mestee tie for the highest Scrabble score from esteem at 8 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in esteem: one comes from rearranging its letters, and esteem itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are esteem and mestee, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in esteem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets. For points, the strongest plays are meets, metes, semee, and teems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in esteem produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, seem, and stem. For points, the strongest plays are emes, meet, mete, seem, seme, stem, and teem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling esteem turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, mes, and met — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in esteem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em and me — each worth 4 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 esteem 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.
esteem 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 five senses for esteem. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
esteem is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing esteem unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are esteem and mestee, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from esteem 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 esteem produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.