overstates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 485 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overstates is the highest-scoring word from overstates, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 485 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in overstates — and it is overstates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overstates produces exactly one nine-letter word: overstate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overstates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toasters. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including estovers, overeats and overseas.
Rearranging the letters in overstates produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters, estates and starves. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including starves, avosets and overate.
Unscrambling overstates turns up 99 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, erases and estate. For points, 34 words tie at 9 points, including serves, starve and staves.
There are 132 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overstates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase and rates. For points, 35 words tie at 8 points, including saves, serve and vases.
Rearranging the letters in overstates produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and ease. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including ever, eves and over.
Unscrambling overstates turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including eve, vet and ave.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overstates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and or.
overstates 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 one sense for overstates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
overstates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overstates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is overstates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from overstates 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 overstates produce 485 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 99 six-letter words, 132 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.