Hidden inside gesstu sit guests and gusset, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GESSTU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GUESTS and GUSSET.
guests and gusset tie for the highest Scrabble score from gesstu at 7 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling gesstu turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guests. For points, the strongest plays are guests and gusset — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gesstu. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess and guest. For points, the strongest plays are gests, guess, guest, gusts, and tegus — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gesstu produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, guts, sets, sues, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are gest, gets, gust, guts, segs, tegs, tegu, and tugs — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gesstu turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gut, set, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are get, gut, seg, teg, and tug — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in gesstu 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guests and gusset, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gesstu 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 gesstu produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.