Hidden inside tester sit retest, setter, street and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retest, setter, street and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tester at 6 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in tester: three come from rearranging its letters, and tester itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with street. For points, the strongest plays are retest, setter, street, and tester — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tester. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer and trees. For points, the strongest plays are ester, reest, reset, steer, stere, teres, terse, trees, and trets — 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 tester produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, test, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are erst, rees, rest, rete, rets, seer, sere, sett, stet, tees, test, tets, tree, tres, and tret — 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 tester turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and set. For points, the strongest plays are ere, ers, est, ree, res, ret, see, ser, set, tee, tes, and tet — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tester. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, et, re, 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.
36 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tester plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tester and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tester 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 tester carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tester. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tester is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tester unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retest, setter, street, and tester, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tester 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 tester produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.