Hidden inside restating sit restating, retasting, and treatings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 627 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
restating, retasting, and treatings tie for the highest Scrabble score from restating at 10 points. The top 10 of 627 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in restating: two come from rearranging its letters, and restating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are restating, retasting, and treatings, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, starting, and treating. For points, the strongest plays are angriest, angstier, astringe, estating, ganister, gantries, gitterns, gnattier, granites, ingrates, rangiest, starting, tangiest, tasering, and treating — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in restating produces 73 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, nastier, ratings, resting, seating, setting, and staring. For points, the strongest plays are aigrets, argents, earings, easting, eatings, erasing, gainers, gaiters, garnets, gastrin, genista, gittern, granite, gratine, gratins, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, ratings, ratting, reagins, regains, reginas, resting, retting, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, setting, stagier, staring, stating, stinger, strange, tagines, tangier, targets, tarting, tasting, tearing, teasing, testing, and triages — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restating turns up 111 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, artist, easing, eating, giants, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aigret, angers, argent, atting, earing, easing, eating, engirt, gainer, gainst, gaiter, garnet, gaster, gaters, giants, grains, grants, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, ingate, ingest, ranges, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, resign, retags, sagier, sanger, sating, sering, signer, signet, singer, stager, stinge, strang, string, tagine, targes, target, taring, tasing, tigers, tinges, and triage — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, earns, gains, gates, giant, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agers, agist, anger, angst, gains, gaits, garni, gater, gates, geans, gears, gents, getas, giant, girns, girts, gites, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grate, great, grins, grist, grits, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, retag, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, singe, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, and trigs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in restating produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, tags, tang, tegs, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restating turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
15 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in restating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in restating and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
restating 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.
restating is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are restating, retasting, and treatings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from restating 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 restating produce 627 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 73 seven-letter words, 111 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.