Hidden inside sat sit ats, sat, and tas, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 3 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ats, sat, and tas tie for the highest Scrabble score from sat at 3 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in sat: two come from rearranging its letters, and sat itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sat. For points, the strongest plays are ats, sat, and tas — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
73 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in sat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sat and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
sat 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 sat carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for sat. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 3 points on a Scrabble board:
sat is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ats, sat, and tas, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sat 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 sat produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.