Hidden inside guests 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.
guests and gusset tie for the highest Scrabble score from guests at 7 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in guests: one comes from rearranging its letters, and guests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guests. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in guests 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling guests 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are es, et, te, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 guests 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.
guests 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 2-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 guests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
guests is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guests and gusset, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from guests 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 guests 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.