Hidden inside restated sit restated and retasted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
restated and retasted tie for the highest Scrabble score from restated at 9 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in restated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and restated 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 restated and retasted, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in restated produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, started, and treated. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including dearest, started and treated.
Unscrambling restated turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, easter and erased. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including desert, erased and rested.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 34 words tie at 6 points, including dares, dates and dears.
Rearranging the letters in restated produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling restated turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including ads, red and sad.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in restated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in restated 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.
restated 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in restated carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
restated is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are restated and retasted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from restated 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 restated produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.