Hidden inside testament sit statement and testament, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
statement and testament tie for the highest Scrabble score from testament at 11 points. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in testament: one comes from rearranging its letters, and testament itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statement. For points, the strongest plays are statement and testament — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling testament produces exactly one eight-letter word: nestmate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in testament produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meanest and neatest. For points, the strongest plays are meanest and metates — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling testament turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate. For points, the strongest plays are aments, enemas, mantes, mattes, mensae, metate, seamen, stamen, and tamest — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testament. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, mates, means, meant, meats, meets, and names. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, enema, manes, manse, mates, matte, matts, means, meant, meats, meets, mensa, mense, menta, mesne, metes, names, neems, nemas, satem, semen, steam, tames, teams, and teems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in testament produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, ease, east, eats, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are amen, emes, maes, mane, mans, mast, mate, mats, matt, mean, meat, meet, mesa, meta, mete, name, neem, nema, same, seam, seem, seme, stem, tame, tams, team, and teem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling testament turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, man, men, met, and net. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, mae, man, mas, mat, men, mes, met, nam, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testament. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in testament plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in testament and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
testament 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for testament. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
testament is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing testament unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are statement and testament, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from testament 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 testament produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.