Hidden inside sestina sit entasis, nasties, seitans and 3 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entasis, nasties, seitans and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sestina at 7 points. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 seven-letter words hiding in sestina: five come from rearranging its letters, and sestina itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are entasis, nasties, seitans, sestina, tansies, and tisanes, 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 sestina turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saints, sanest, and stains. For points, the strongest plays are anises, assent, insets, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, satins, seitan, siesta, stains, stanes, steins, tassie, tenias, tineas, and tisane — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sestina. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, saint, seats, sites, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are anise, antes, antis, asset, easts, entia, etnas, inset, nates, neats, neist, nests, nites, sains, saint, sanes, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seats, sensa, senti, sents, sines, sites, snits, stain, stane, stans, stein, sties, tains, tases, tasse, teins, tenia, tians, tinea, and tines — 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 sestina produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, neat, nest, nets, and sane. For points, the strongest plays are ains, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, ests, etas, etna, naes, neat, ness, nest, nets, nite, nits, sain, sane, sans, sate, sati, seas, seat, seis, sent, seta, sets, sine, sins, site, sits, snit, stan, tain, tans, tase, tass, teas, tein, tens, tian, ties, tine, and tins — 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 sestina turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, its, net, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ain, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, ass, ate, ats, eat, ens, ess, est, eta, ins, its, nae, net, nit, sae, san, sat, sea, sei, sen, set, sin, sis, sit, tae, tan, tas, tea, ten, tes, tie, tin, and tis — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sestina. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
45 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sestina plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sestina and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sestina 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sestina is one of six seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sestina unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entasis, nasties, seitans, sestina, tansies, and tisanes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sestina 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 sestina produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.