statues needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
statues is the highest-scoring word from statues, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in statues — and it is statues itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling statues turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with states, statue, status, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are astute, sautes, states, statue, status, suttas, tasset, and tastes — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, state, stats, taste, and tests. For points, the strongest plays are asset, easts, sates, saute, seats, setts, state, stats, stets, suets, sutta, tases, tasse, taste, tates, tauts, teats, testa, and tests — 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 statues produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, seas, seat, sets, stat, and sues. For points, the strongest plays are ates, east, eats, ests, etas, sate, seas, seat, seta, sets, sett, stat, stet, sues, suet, tase, tass, tate, tats, taus, taut, teas, teat, test, tets, tuts, uses, utas, and utes — 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 statues turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, eat, sat, sea, set, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are ass, ate, ats, att, eat, eau, ess, est, eta, sae, sat, sau, sea, set, sue, sus, tae, tas, tat, tau, tea, tes, tet, tut, use, uta, ute, and uts — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, as, at, es, et, ta, te, us, and ut — 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 statues and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
statues 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 one sense for statues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
statues is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing statues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is statues, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from statues 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 statues produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.