Hidden inside tesserae sit esterase and tesserae, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
esterase and tesserae tie for the highest Scrabble score from tesserae at 8 points. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tesserae: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tesserae 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 esterase and tesserae, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tesserae produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters. For points, the strongest plays are easters, reseats, searest, seaters, teasers, tereses, 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 tesserae turns up 21 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, resees, 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tesserae. 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, resee, 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 tesserae 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 tesserae 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 tesserae. 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.
Swap a single tile in tesserae 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.
tesserae 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 tesserae carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tesserae is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tesserae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are esterase and tesserae, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tesserae 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 tesserae produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.