Hidden inside waitress sit waisters, waitress, and wastries, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 299 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waisters, waitress, and wastries tie for the highest Scrabble score from waitress at 11 points. The top 10 of 299 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in waitress: two come from rearranging its letters, and waitress itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with waitress. For points, the strongest plays are waisters, waitress, and wastries — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in waitress produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with waiters. For points, the strongest plays are waister, waiters, wariest, wasters, and wastrie — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling waitress turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raises, rawest, resist, sister, stairs, stares, and straws. For points, the strongest plays are rawest, resaws, sawers, sewars, straws, strews, swears, sweats, tawers, tawses, twiers, waists, waiter, waster, wastes, waters, wisest, wrasse, wrests, wriest, wrists, and writes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waitress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates, rests, rises, seats, sites, and stair. For points, the strongest plays are resaw, sawer, sewar, stews, straw, strew, sware, swart, swats, swear, sweat, tawer, tawie, tawse, trews, twaes, twier, wairs, waist, waits, wares, warts, waste, wasts, water, wears, weirs, wests, wetas, wires, wiser, wises, wists, wites, wrest, wries, wrist, write, and writs — 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 waitress produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are awes, raws, saws, sews, staw, stew, swat, taws, tews, twae, twas, waes, wair, wait, ware, wars, wart, wast, wats, wear, weir, wert, west, weta, wets, wire, wise, wiss, wist, wite, wits, and writ — 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 waitress turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are awe, raw, saw, sew, taw, tew, twa, wae, war, was, wat, wet, wis, and wit — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waitress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, ew, is, it, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in waitress and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
waitress 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 waitress carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for waitress. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
waitress is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waitress unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are waisters, waitress, and wastries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waitress 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 waitress produce 299 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.