substates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
substates is the highest-scoring word from substates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in substates — and it is substates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statuses. For points, the strongest plays are asbestus, bassetts, substate, and subtests — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in substates produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statues. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including bassest, bassets and bassett.
Unscrambling substates turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, basses and beasts. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including abuses, basses and beasts.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, asses and bases. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including abuse, bases and beast.
Rearranging the letters in substates produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bass and bats. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including base, bass and bats.
Unscrambling substates turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and bat. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including bat, bet and bus.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in substates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in substates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in substates 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.
substates 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
substates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing substates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is substates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from substates 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 substates produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.