Hidden inside restates sit estreats, restates, and retastes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estreats, restates, and retastes tie for the highest Scrabble score from restates at 8 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in restates: two come from rearranging its letters, and restates 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 estreats, restates, and retastes, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in restates produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters, estates, and streets. For points, the strongest plays are easters, estates, estreat, reseats, restate, retaste, retests, searest, seaters, setters, starets, staters, streets, tasters, teasers, tersest, tessera, and testers — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restates turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, erases, estate, stares, starts, states, and steers. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, assert, asters, easers, easter, eaters, erases, estate, esters, reests, reseat, resets, retest, sarees, seater, serest, sestet, setter, stares, starts, stater, states, steers, steres, street, tasers, tasset, taster, tastes, taters, teaser, teases, testae, tester, testes, tetras, treats, and tsetse — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase, rates, rests, seats, stare, and stars. For points, the strongest plays are arete, arses, asset, aster, easer, eases, easts, eater, erase, erses, ester, rases, rates, reest, resat, reses, reset, rests, saree, sates, sears, seats, seers, seres, setae, setts, stare, stars, start, state, stats, steer, stere, stets, tares, tarts, taser, tases, tasse, taste, tater, tates, tears, tease, teats, teres, terse, testa, tests, tetra, trass, treat, trees, tress, trets, and tsars — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in restates produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, eses, esse, ests, etas, rase, rate, rats, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seas, seat, seer, sees, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, sett, star, stat, stet, tare, tars, tart, tase, tass, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, tees, test, tets, tree, tres, tret, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restates turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, ere, ers, ess, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tee, tes, and tet — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — 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 restates 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.
restates 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 restates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for restates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
restates is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estreats, restates, and retastes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from restates 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 restates produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.