Hidden inside guesstimate sit guesstimate and guestimates, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 506 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guesstimate and guestimates tie for the highest Scrabble score from guesstimate at 14 points. The top 10 of 506 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in guesstimate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and guesstimate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are guesstimate and guestimates, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guesstimate produces exactly one ten-letter word: guestimate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guesstimate turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estimates and steamiest, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guesstimate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are messuage and misusage, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in guesstimate produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest, estates, message, and statues. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including message, ageisms and gametes.
Unscrambling guesstimate turns up 78 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuses, assume and estate. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including images, ageism and agisms.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guesstimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, eases and games. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including games, image and agism.
Rearranging the letters in guesstimate produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and mass. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including mugs, smug and game.
Unscrambling guesstimate turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and ass. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mug and gam.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guesstimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in guesstimate plus one additional letter.
guesstimate 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 3-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 guesstimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
guesstimate is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guesstimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guesstimate and guestimates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from guesstimate 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 guesstimate produce 506 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 78 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.