Hidden inside estimates sit estimates and steamiest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estimates and steamiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from estimates at 11 points. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in estimates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and estimates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estimates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estimate, etatisms, meatiest, misstate, seamiest, steamies, and teatimes, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in estimates produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest and estates. For points, the strongest plays are etatism, matiest, metates, metisse, misease, miseats, misseat, samiest, samites, siamese, statism, steamie, tamises, and teatime — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling estimates turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, states, steams, tastes, and teases. For points, the strongest plays are emesis, maists, mattes, metate, misate, miseat, misset, samite, sesame, smites, steams, stimes, tamest, tmeses, and tmesis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estimates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, items, mates, meats, meets, seats, and seems. For points, the strongest plays are amies, amiss, emits, items, maist, mases, masse, masts, mates, matte, matts, meats, meets, mesas, metes, metis, mises, mists, mites, mitts, satem, seams, seems, seism, semes, semis, simas, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tames, tamis, teams, teems, and times — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in estimates produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ease, east, eats, item, mass, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amis, emes, emit, isms, item, maes, mass, mast, mate, mats, matt, meat, meet, mesa, mess, meta, mete, mise, miss, mist, mite, mitt, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, tame, tams, team, teem, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling estimates turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, ate, eat, its, met, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, eme, ems, ism, mae, mas, mat, mes, met, mis, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estimates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in estimates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in estimates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
estimates 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 seven senses for estimates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
estimates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing estimates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estimates and steamiest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from estimates 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 estimates produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.