Hidden inside estimate sit estimate, meatiest, and teatimes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estimate, meatiest, and teatimes tie for the highest Scrabble score from estimate at 10 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in estimate: two come from rearranging its letters, and estimate 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 estimate, meatiest, 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 estimate produces 5 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 etatism, matiest, metates, steamie, 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 estimate turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate. For points, the strongest plays are mattes, metate, misate, miseat, samite, and tamest — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates, meats, meets, state, steam, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are amies, emits, items, maist, mates, matte, matts, meats, meets, metes, metis, mites, mitts, satem, smite, steam, stime, 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 estimate produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ease, east, eats, item, mate, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amis, emes, emit, item, maes, mast, mate, mats, matt, meat, meet, mesa, meta, mete, mise, mist, mite, mitt, same, seam, seem, seme, semi, sima, 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 estimate turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, eat, its, met, sat, and sea. 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 estimate. 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.
Swap a single tile in estimate 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.
estimate 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 estimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
estimate is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing estimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estimate, meatiest, and teatimes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from estimate 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 estimate produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.