Hidden inside testifies sit feistiest and testifies, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feistiest and testifies tie for the highest Scrabble score from testifies at 12 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in testifies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and testifies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with testifies. For points, the strongest plays are feistiest and testifies — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling testifies turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is feists, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fists, sites, and tests. For points, the strongest plays are feist, fesse, fests, fetes, fists, seifs, and sifts — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in testifies produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, feet, fist, fits, sees, sets, and site. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fees, feet, fess, fest, fete, fets, fist, fits, seif, and sift — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling testifies turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fit, its, see, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fee, fes, fet, fie, fit, and ifs — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in testifies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in testifies 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.
testifies 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 testifies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for testifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
testifies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing testifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feistiest and testifies, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from testifies 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 testifies produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.