Hidden inside sustain sit issuant and sustain, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
issuant and sustain tie for the highest Scrabble score from sustain at 7 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sustain: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sustain 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 issuant and sustain, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sustain turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saints and stains. For points, the strongest plays are saints, satins, stains, and suints — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sustain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, saint, stain, suits, tunas, and units. For points, the strongest plays are antis, aunts, nisus, sains, saint, sasin, satin, satis, sinus, situs, snits, stain, stans, stuns, suint, suits, tains, tians, tunas, unais, and units — 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 sustain produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, nuts, sins, sits, and suit. For points, the strongest plays are ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, anus, aunt, nits, nuts, sain, sans, sati, sins, sits, snit, stan, stun, suit, suns, tain, tans, tass, taus, tian, tins, tuis, tuna, tuns, unai, unis, unit, and utas — 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 sustain turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, its, nut, sat, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, ass, ats, ins, its, nit, nus, nut, san, sat, sau, sin, sis, sit, sun, sus, tan, tas, tau, tin, tis, tui, tun, uni, uns, uta, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sustain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, as, at, in, is, it, na, nu, si, ta, ti, un, 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 sustain 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.
sustain 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.
Dictionaries record seven senses for sustain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
sustain is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sustain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are issuant and sustain, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sustain 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 sustain produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.