stalemates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 322 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stalemates is the highest-scoring word from stalemates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 322 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in stalemates — and it is stalemates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stalemates turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are matelasse, seatmates, and stalemate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stalemates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maleates, maltases, mateless and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stalemates produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estates and settles. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including malates, maleate and maltase.
Unscrambling stalemates turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, lamest and latest. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including lamest, metals and steams.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stalemates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, lasts and latte. For points, 36 words tie at 7 points, including males, mates and meals.
Rearranging the letters in stalemates produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east and eats. For points, 38 words tie at 6 points, including lame, male and mass.
Unscrambling stalemates turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and eat. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including met, ama and elm.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stalemates. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in stalemates plus one additional letter.
stalemates 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for stalemates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
stalemates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stalemates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stalemates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stalemates 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 stalemates produce 322 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.