Hidden inside standees sit assented, sensated, and standees, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assented, sensated, and standees tie for the highest Scrabble score from standees at 9 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in standees: two come from rearranging its letters, and standees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assented, sensated, and standees, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in standees produces 7 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 densest, sedates, and standee, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling standees turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sanest, seated, sensed, stands, teased, and teases. For points, the strongest plays are anteed, nested, seated, sedans, sedate, sensed, stades, stands, staned, steads, steeds, teased, tensed, and tsades — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in standees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, eased, eases, eaten, needs, nests, and sands. For points, the strongest plays are aedes, anted, dates, deans, deets, denes, dense, dents, eased, needs, sades, sands, saned, sated, sedan, seeds, sends, sneds, stade, stand, stead, steed, tased, tends, and tsade — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in standees produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, date, ease, east, eats, ends, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are ands, dans, date, dean, dees, deet, dene, dens, dent, ends, need, sade, sand, seed, send, sned, tads, teds, teed, and tend — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling standees turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ass, ate, eat, and end. For points, the strongest plays are ads, and, dan, das, dee, den, eds, end, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in standees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 standees 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.
standees 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for standees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
standees is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing standees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assented, sensated, and standees, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from standees 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 standees produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.