Hidden inside quickest sit quickest and quickset, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 23 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quickest and quickset tie for the highest Scrabble score from quickest at 23 points. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in quickest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and quickest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quickest. For points, the strongest plays are quickest and quickset — each worth 23 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quickest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cutie, kites and quest. For points, the strongest play is quick — worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in quickest produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cute and cuts. For points, the strongest play is quit — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quickest turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and ice. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quickest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in quickest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in quickest 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.
quickest 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for quickest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
quickest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quickest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are quickest and quickset, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from quickest 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 quickest produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.