Hidden inside sati sit aits and sati, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aits and sati tie for the highest Scrabble score from sati at 4 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in sati: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sati itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aits and sati, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
40 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in sati plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sati and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
sati 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 sati carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
sati is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sati unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aits and sati, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sati 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 sati produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.