Hidden inside latests sit latests, saltest, and stalest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
latests, saltest, and stalest tie for the highest Scrabble score from latests at 7 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in latests: two come from rearranging its letters, and latests 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 latests, saltest, and stalest, 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 latests turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latest, lattes, states, steals, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are latest, lattes, leasts, slates, stales, states, steals, tassel, tasset, tastes, and teslas — 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 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in latests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, latte, least, sales, salts, seals, and seats. For points, the strongest plays are asset, easts, lases, lasts, latte, least, sales, salts, sates, seals, seats, setal, setts, slate, slats, stale, state, stats, steal, stela, stets, taels, tales, tases, tasse, taste, tates, teals, teats, tesla, testa, and tests — 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 latests produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, last, late, less, lets, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ates, east, eats, ests, etas, lase, lass, last, late, lats, leas, less, lest, lets, sale, sals, salt, sate, seal, seas, seat, sels, seta, sets, sett, slat, stat, stet, tael, tale, tase, tass, tate, tats, teal, teas, teat, tela, tels, test, and tets — 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 latests turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, eat, let, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ass, ate, ats, att, eat, els, ess, est, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tat, tea, tel, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in latests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, ta, 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 latests 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.
latests 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 three senses for latests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
latests is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing latests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are latests, saltest, and stalest, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from latests 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 latests produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.