Hidden inside quartets sit quartets and squatter, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quartets and squatter tie for the highest Scrabble score from quartets at 17 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in quartets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and quartets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are quartets and squatter, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in quartets produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are quartes, quartet, and quatres, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quartets turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with square, statue, treats, and truest. For points, the strongest plays are quarte, quarts, quatre, and square — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quest, rates and stare. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including quest, quare and quart.
Rearranging the letters in quartets produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, the strongest play is qats — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quartets turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are qat, qua, and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and us.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in quartets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in quartets and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
quartets 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 five senses for quartets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
quartets is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quartets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are quartets and squatter, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from quartets 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 quartets produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.