tungstate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tungstate is the highest-scoring word from tungstate, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tungstate — and it is tungstate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tungstate produces exactly one eight-letter word: gauntest. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tungstate produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is guttate, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tungstate turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents and statue. For points, the strongest plays are agents, guttae, and teguas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tungstate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aunts and gates. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including agent, gates and guest.
Rearranging the letters in tungstate produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and anus. For points, 38 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gate and gets.
Unscrambling tungstate turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and get.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tungstate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tungstate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tungstate 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.
tungstate 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for tungstate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tungstate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tungstate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tungstate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tungstate 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 tungstate produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.