steatites needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
steatites is the highest-scoring word from steatites, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in steatites — and it is steatites itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steatites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tastiest. For points, the strongest plays are steatite, tastiest, testates, and testiest — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steatites produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest and estates. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including easiest, estates and attests.
Unscrambling steatites turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, states, tastes, and teases. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including estate, states and tastes.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steatites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, seats and sites. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including eases, seats and sites.
Rearranging the letters in steatites produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east and eats. For points, 33 words tie at 4 points, including ease, east and eats.
Unscrambling steatites turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and eat. For points, 29 words tie at 3 points, including ass, ate and eat.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steatites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in steatites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steatites and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
steatites 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in steatites carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for steatites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
steatites is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steatites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is steatites, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from steatites 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 steatites produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.