Hidden inside requests sit questers and requests, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
questers and requests tie for the highest Scrabble score from requests at 17 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in requests: one comes from rearranging its letters, and requests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with requests. For points, the strongest plays are questers and requests — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in requests produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with request. For points, the strongest plays are quester and request — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling requests turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quests, steers, and surest. For points, the strongest plays are queers and quests — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in requests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queer, quest, rests, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are eques, queer, and quest — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in requests produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, sees, sets, sues, sure, tree, and true. For points, the strongest play is suqs — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling requests turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see, set, sue, and use. For points, the strongest play is suq — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in requests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, re, te, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 requests 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.
requests 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 requests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
requests is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing requests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are questers and requests, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from requests 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 requests produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.