gestates needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gestates is the highest-scoring word from gestates, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in gestates — and it is gestates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gestates produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estates. For points, the strongest plays are gestate and tagetes — 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 gestates turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, stages, states, tastes, and teases. For points, the strongest plays are egesta, egests, geests, gestes, sagest, and stages — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gestates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, gases, gates, seats, stage, state, and stats. For points, the strongest plays are egest, gases, gasts, gates, geest, geste, gests, getas, sages, stage, and stags — 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 gestates produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease, east, eats, gate, gets, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ages, gaes, gast, gate, gats, gees, gest, geta, gets, sage, sags, segs, stag, tags, and tegs — 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 gestates turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, ate, eat, gas, gee, and get. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gas, gat, gee, get, sag, seg, tag, and teg — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gestates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — 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 gestates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
gestates 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 two senses for gestates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gestates is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gestates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gestates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gestates 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 gestates produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.