Hidden inside tardiest sit striated and tardiest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 324 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
striated and tardiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from tardiest at 9 points. The top 10 of 324 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tardiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tardiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are striated and tardiest, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tardiest produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with started and tastier. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including started, aridest and astride.
Unscrambling tardiest turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, driest and raised. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including driest, raised and stared.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tardiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 49 words tie at 6 points, including aired, aside and dares.
Rearranging the letters in tardiest produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and arts. For points, 38 words tie at 5 points, including aids, dare and date.
Unscrambling tardiest turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tardiest. 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.
9 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tardiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tardiest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tardiest 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 tardiest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tardiest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tardiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are striated and tardiest, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tardiest 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 tardiest produce 324 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.