Hidden inside suites sit suites and tissue, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
suites and tissue tie for the highest Scrabble score from suites at 6 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in suites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and suites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: suites and tissue, worth 6 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in suites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, sites, suite, and suits. For points, the strongest plays are etuis, issue, sites, situs, sties, suets, suite, and suits — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in suites produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sets, site, sits, sues, suit, ties, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are ests, etui, seis, sets, site, sits, sues, suet, suit, ties, tuis, uses, and utes — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling suites turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sit, sue, tie, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ess, est, its, sei, set, sis, sit, sue, sus, tes, tie, tis, tui, use, ute, and uts — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in suites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are es, et, is, it, si, te, ti, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in suites and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
suites 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 four senses for suites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
suites is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing suites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are suites and tissue, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from suites 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 suites produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.