Hidden inside testators sit attestors and testators, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attestors and testators tie for the highest Scrabble score from testators at 9 points. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in testators: one comes from rearranging its letters, and testators itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attestors and testators, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toasters. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including toasters, attestor and strettas.
Rearranging the letters in testators produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toaster. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including toaster, attests and osetras.
Unscrambling testators turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roasts, sorest and stares. For points, 41 words tie at 6 points, including roasts, sorest and stares.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests and roast. For points, 77 words tie at 5 points, including rates, rests and roast.
Rearranging the letters in testators produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 81 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and east.
Unscrambling testators turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 47 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ass.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and or.
Swap a single tile in testators 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.
testators 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 testators carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for testators. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
testators is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing testators unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attestors and testators, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from testators 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 testators produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.