Hidden inside fastens sit fastens and fatness, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fastens and fatness tie for the highest Scrabble score from fastens at 10 points. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in fastens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fastens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fastens and fatness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fastens turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with safest and sanest. For points, the strongest plays are fasten, feasts, festas, and safest — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fates, nests, and seats. For points, the strongest plays are fanes, fasts, fates, feast, feats, festa, fests, fetas, and safes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fastens produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, fans, fast, fate, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fane, fans, fast, fate, fats, feat, fens, fess, fest, feta, fets, and safe — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fastens turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, fan, fat, and net. For points, the strongest plays are aft, efs, eft, fan, fas, fat, fen, fes, and fet — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 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 fastens and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
fastens 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 four senses for fastens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
fastens is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fastens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fastens and fatness, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fastens 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 fastens produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.