Hidden inside tastes sit states, tasset, and tastes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
states, tasset, and tastes tie for the highest Scrabble score from tastes at 6 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tastes: two come from rearranging its letters, and tastes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with states and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are states, tasset, and tastes — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tastes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, state, stats, taste, and tests. For points, the strongest plays are asset, easts, sates, seats, setts, state, stats, stets, tases, tasse, taste, tates, teats, testa, and tests — 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 tastes produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, seas, seat, sets, stat, and teas. For points, the strongest plays are ates, east, eats, ests, etas, sate, seas, seat, seta, sets, sett, stat, stet, tase, tass, tate, tats, teas, teat, test, and tets — 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 tastes turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, eat, sat, sea, set, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ass, ate, ats, att, eat, ess, est, eta, sae, sat, sea, set, tae, tas, tat, tea, tes, and tet — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tastes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, as, at, es, et, ta, and te — 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 tastes 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.
tastes 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 tastes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for tastes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tastes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tastes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are states, tasset, and tastes, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tastes 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 tastes produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.