Hidden inside wasted sit tawsed, wadset, and wasted, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tawsed, wadset, and wasted tie for the highest Scrabble score from wasted at 10 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in wasted: two come from rearranging its letters, and wasted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wasted. For points, the strongest plays are tawsed, wadset, and wasted — each worth 10 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 wasted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, sweat, and waste. For points, the strongest plays are dawts, sawed, tawed, and wades — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wasted produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, east, eats, seat, stew, tads, and teas. For points, the strongest plays are awed, daws, dawt, dews, wade, wads, and weds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wasted turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate, eat, sad, sat, saw, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wasted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, aw, ew, 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 wasted 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.
wasted 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 wasted carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for wasted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
wasted is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wasted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tawsed, wadset, and wasted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wasted 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 wasted produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.