Hidden inside scantiest sit cattiness, scantiest, and tacitness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 353 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cattiness, scantiest, and tacitness tie for the highest Scrabble score from scantiest at 11 points. The top 10 of 353 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in scantiest: two come from rearranging its letters, and scantiest 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 cattiness, scantiest, and tacitness, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scantiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including cineasts, entastic and nictates.
Rearranging the letters in scantiest produces 28 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acetins, ascents, ascites and 15 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scantiest turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attics, nicest and saints. For points, 29 words tie at 8 points, including attics, nicest and scents.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scantiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cases and casts. For points, 36 words tie at 7 points, including attic, cases and casts.
Rearranging the letters in scantiest produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and cans. For points, 31 words tie at 6 points, including acts, cans and case.
Unscrambling scantiest turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ass. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scantiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in scantiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scantiest 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.
scantiest 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.
scantiest is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scantiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cattiness, scantiest, and tacitness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scantiest 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 scantiest produce 353 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.