Hidden inside statements sit statements and testaments, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 265 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
statements and testaments tie for the highest Scrabble score from statements at 12 points. The top 10 of 265 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in statements: one comes from rearranging its letters, and statements itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statements. For points, the strongest plays are statements and testaments — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling statements turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statement. For points, the strongest plays are nestmates, statement, statesmen, and testament — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statements. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nestmate and tameness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in statements produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estates, meanest, neatest, and tensest. For points, the strongest plays are meanest, metates, and stamens — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling statements turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, sanest and states. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including steams, aments and enemas.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statements. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, eaten and mates. For points, 34 words tie at 7 points, including mates, means and meant.
Rearranging the letters in statements produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants and ease. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including amen, mass and mate.
Unscrambling statements turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and ate. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including man, men and met.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statements. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
statements 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 seven senses for statements. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
statements is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing statements unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are statements and testaments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from statements 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 statements produce 265 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.