Hidden inside sortes sit rosets, sorest, sortes and 4 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rosets, sorest, sortes and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sortes at 6 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 six-letter words hiding in sortes: six come from rearranging its letters, and sortes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorest and stores. For points, the strongest plays are rosets, sorest, sortes, stores, torses, tosser, and tsores — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sortes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, roses, sorts, and store. For points, the strongest plays are rests, roses, roset, rotes, sores, sorts, store, tores, torse, and tress — 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 sortes produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rose, sets, sore, sort, toes, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are eros, erst, ests, ores, orts, oses, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, sers, sets, sore, sort, sots, toes, tore, tors, toss, and tres — 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 sortes turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set and toe. For points, the strongest plays are ers, ess, est, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, ser, set, sos, sot, tes, toe, and tor — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sortes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
49 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sortes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sortes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
sortes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
sortes is one of seven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sortes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rosets, sorest, sortes, stores, torses, tosser, and tsores, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sortes 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 sortes produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.