fastest needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TESFAST, SSTTEAF or SSTTAFE and you get the same 7 letters as FASTEST: so the words from FASTEST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
fastest is the highest-scoring word from fastest, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in fastest — and it is fastest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fastest turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with safest, states, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are feasts, festas, and safest — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fates, seats and state. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including fates, fasts and feast.
Rearranging the letters in fastest produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and fast. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including fast, fate and safe.
Unscrambling fastest turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and eat. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including fat, aft and efs.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in fastest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fastest 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.
fastest 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 fastest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for fastest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
fastest is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fastest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fastest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fastest 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 fastest produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.