Hidden inside statute sit statute and tautest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
statute and tautest tie for the highest Scrabble score from statute at 7 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in statute: one comes from rearranging its letters, and statute itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are statute and tautest, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in statute. If a familiar word is all you need, start with state and taste. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including state, taste and saute.
Rearranging the letters in statute produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and seat. For points, 23 words tie at 4 points, including east, eats and seat.
Unscrambling statute turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and sat. For points, 25 words tie at 3 points, including ate, eat and sat.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in statute plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in statute 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.
statute 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 statute. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
statute is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing statute unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are statute and tautest, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from statute 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 statute produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.