Hidden inside stated sit stated and tasted, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 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.
stated and tasted tie for the highest Scrabble score from stated at 7 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in stated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tasted. For points, the strongest plays are stated and tasted — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, state, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are atted, dates, sated, stade, stead, tased, 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 stated produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, east, eats, seat, stat, tads, and teas. For points, the strongest plays are date, sade, tads, and teds — 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 stated turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate, eat, sad, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, eds, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, 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 stated 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.
stated 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 stated carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for stated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
stated is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stated and tasted, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stated 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 stated produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.