Hidden inside setters sit retests, setters, streets and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retests, setters, streets and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from setters at 7 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in setters: four come from rearranging its letters, and setters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with streets. For points, the strongest plays are retests, setters, streets, tersest, and testers — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling setters turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steers and street. For points, the strongest plays are esters, reests, resets, retest, serest, sestet, setter, steers, steres, street, tester, testes, and tsetse — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in setters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, steer, tests, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are erses, ester, reest, reses, reset, rests, seers, seres, setts, steer, stere, stets, teres, terse, tests, trees, tress, and trets — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in setters produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, sees, sets, test, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are erst, eses, esse, ests, rees, rest, rete, rets, seer, sees, sere, sers, sets, sett, stet, tees, test, tets, tree, tres, and tret — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling setters turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and set. For points, the strongest plays are ere, ers, ess, est, ree, res, ret, see, ser, set, tee, tes, and tet — each worth 3 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 setters. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, et, re, and te, 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 setters 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.
setters 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 setters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for setters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
setters is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing setters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retests, setters, streets, tersest, and testers, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from setters 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 setters produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.