Hidden inside issuant sit issuant and sustain, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
issuant and sustain tie for the highest Scrabble score from issuant at 7 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in issuant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and issuant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are issuant and sustain, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in issuant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, saint and stain. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including aunts, saint and stain.
Rearranging the letters in issuant produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 32 words tie at 4 points, including ants, anus and aunt.
Unscrambling issuant turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and its. For points, 31 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ass and its.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in issuant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in issuant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in issuant 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.
issuant 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.
issuant is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing issuant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are issuant and sustain, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from issuant 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 issuant produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.