testates needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
testates is the highest-scoring word from testates, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in testates — and it is testates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in testates produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estates. For points, the strongest plays are attests, estates, and testate — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling testates turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, states, tastes, and teases. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including estate, states and tastes.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, seats and state. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including eases, seats and state.
Rearranging the letters in testates produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east and eats. For points, 26 words tie at 4 points, including ease, east and eats.
Unscrambling testates turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate and eat. For points, 20 words tie at 3 points, including ass, ate and eat.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in testates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in testates 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.
testates 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 testates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for testates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
testates is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing testates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is testates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from testates 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 testates produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.