Hidden inside suttas sit status and suttas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
status and suttas tie for the highest Scrabble score from suttas at 6 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in suttas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and suttas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with status. For points, the strongest plays are status and suttas — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in suttas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in suttas 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.
suttas 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.
suttas is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing suttas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are status and suttas, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from suttas 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 suttas produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.