tungstates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 296 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tungstates is the highest-scoring word from tungstates, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 296 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in tungstates — and it is tungstates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tungstates produces exactly one nine-letter word: tungstate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tungstates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gauntest, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tungstates produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statues. For points, the strongest play is guttate — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tungstates turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, anuses and guests. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including agents, guests and stages.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tungstates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aunts and gases. For points, 33 words tie at 6 points, including agent, gases and gates.
Rearranging the letters in tungstates produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and anus. For points, 40 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gate and gets.
Unscrambling tungstates turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ass. 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 tungstates. 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.
tungstates 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 tungstates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tungstates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tungstates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tungstates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tungstates 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 tungstates produce 296 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.