Hidden inside tessera sit easters, reseats, searest and 3 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
easters, reseats, searest and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tessera at 7 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 seven-letter words hiding in tessera: five come from rearranging its letters, and tessera itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters. For points, the strongest plays are easters, reseats, searest, seaters, teasers, and tessera — 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 tessera turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, erases, stares, steers, and teases. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, assert, asters, easers, easter, eaters, erases, esters, reests, reseat, resets, sarees, seater, serest, stares, steers, steres, tasers, teaser, and teases — 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tessera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase, rates, rests, seats, stare, and stars. For points, the strongest plays are arete, arses, asset, aster, easer, eases, easts, eater, erase, erses, ester, rases, rates, reest, resat, reses, reset, rests, saree, sates, sears, seats, seers, seres, setae, stare, stars, steer, stere, tares, taser, tases, tasse, tears, tease, teres, terse, trass, trees, tress, and tsars — 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 tessera produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, eses, esse, ests, etas, rase, rate, rats, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seas, seat, seer, sees, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, star, tare, tars, tase, tass, tear, teas, tees, tree, tres, and tsar — 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 tessera turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, ere, ers, ess, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, and tes — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tessera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, 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.
31 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tessera plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tessera 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.
tessera 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 tessera carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tessera. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tessera is one of six seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tessera unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are easters, reseats, searest, seaters, teasers, and tessera, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tessera 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 tessera produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.