Hidden inside test sit sett, stet, test and 1 other, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sett, stet, test and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from test at 4 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 four-letter words hiding in test: three come from rearranging its letters, and test itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with test. For points, the strongest plays are sett, stet, test, and tets — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in test. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are es, et, and te, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in test and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
test 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 test carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for test. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 4 points on a Scrabble board:
test is one of four four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing test unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sett, stet, test, and tets, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from test 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 test produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.