statuses needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
statuses is the highest-scoring word from statuses, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in statuses — and it is statuses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling statuses turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with states, statue, status, and tastes. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including states, statue and status.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, seats and state. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including asses, seats and state.
Rearranging the letters in statuses produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and seas. For points, 31 words tie at 4 points, including east, eats and seas.
Unscrambling statuses turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and eat. For points, 28 words tie at 3 points, including ass, ate and eat.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in statuses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in statuses and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
statuses 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 statuses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
statuses is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing statuses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is statuses, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from statuses 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 statuses produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.