Hidden inside smartest sit mattress, smartest, and smatters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mattress, smartest, and smatters tie for the highest Scrabble score from smartest at 10 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in smartest: two come from rearranging its letters, and smartest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mattress and smartest. For points, the strongest plays are mattress, smartest, and smatters — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smartest produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masters and matters. For points, the strongest plays are masters, matters, smatter, and streams — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smartest turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, matter, stares, starts, states, steams, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are armets, marses, masers, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, ramets, smarts, smears, steams, stream, tamers, and tamest — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, rates, rests, seats, smart, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are armet, mares, marse, marts, maser, mases, masse, masts, mater, mates, matte, matts, meats, mesas, ramet, reams, satem, seams, smart, smear, steam, stems, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smartest produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and mass. For points, the strongest plays are arms, maes, mare, mars, mart, mass, mast, mate, mats, matt, meat, mesa, mess, meta, rams, ream, rems, same, seam, stem, tame, tams, team, term, tram, and trem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smartest turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are arm, ems, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, ram, rem, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in smartest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
smartest 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.
smartest is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smartest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mattress, smartest, and smatters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smartest 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 smartest produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.