Hidden inside state sit state, taste, tates and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
state, taste, tates and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from state at 5 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in state: four come from rearranging its letters, and state itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with state and taste. For points, the strongest plays are state, taste, tates, teats, and testa — 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 state produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, seat, stat, teas, and test. For points, the strongest plays are ates, east, eats, etas, sate, seat, seta, sett, stat, stet, tase, tate, tats, teas, teat, test, and tets — 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 state turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, sat, sea, set, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ate, ats, att, eat, est, eta, sae, sat, sea, set, tae, tas, tat, tea, tes, and tet — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in state. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, as, at, es, et, ta, and te — each worth 2 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 state and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
state 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in state carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for state. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
state is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing state unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are state, taste, tates, teats, and testa, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from state 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 state produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.