Hidden inside steadiest sit stateside and steadiest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stateside and steadiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from steadiest at 10 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in steadiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and steadiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steadiest. For points, the strongest plays are stateside and steadiest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadiest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are distaste, sedatest, staidest, and steadies, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steadiest produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with disease, easiest, and estates. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including disease, detests and disseat.
Unscrambling steadiest turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, seated and states. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including seated, tasted and teased.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates and diets. For points, 31 words tie at 6 points, including aside, dates and diets.
Rearranging the letters in steadiest produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date and dies. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including aids, date and dies.
Unscrambling steadiest turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ass. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in steadiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steadiest 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.
steadiest 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 steadiest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
steadiest is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steadiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stateside and steadiest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steadiest 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 steadiest produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.