Hidden inside status sit status and suttas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
status and suttas tie for the highest Scrabble score from status at 6 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in status: one comes from rearranging its letters, and status itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with status. For points, the strongest plays are status and suttas — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in status. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stats. For points, the strongest plays are stats, sutta, and tauts — 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 status produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stat. For points, the strongest plays are stat, tass, tats, taus, taut, tuts, and utas — 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 status turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ass, ats, att, sat, sau, sus, tas, tat, tau, tut, uta, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in status. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are as, at, ta, 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 status 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.
status 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 status. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
status is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing status unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are status and suttas, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from status 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 status produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.