Hidden inside wasterie sit sweatier, wasterie, and weariest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 289 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sweatier, wasterie, and weariest tie for the highest Scrabble score from wasterie at 11 points. The top 10 of 289 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in wasterie: two come from rearranging its letters, and wasterie itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sweatier. For points, the strongest plays are sweatier, wasterie, and weariest — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wasterie produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sweater and waiters. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including sweater, waiters and waister.
Unscrambling wasterie turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easier, easter and rawest. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including rawest, waiter and waters.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wasterie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, raise and rates. For points, 42 words tie at 8 points, including sewer, straw and swear.
Rearranging the letters in wasterie produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 37 words tie at 7 points, including stew, wait and wars.
Unscrambling wasterie turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including raw, saw and sew.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wasterie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in wasterie plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wasterie 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.
wasterie 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 wasterie carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
wasterie is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wasterie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sweatier, wasterie, and weariest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wasterie 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 wasterie produce 289 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.