Hidden inside wastes sit sweats, tawses, and wastes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sweats, tawses, and wastes tie for the highest Scrabble score from wastes at 9 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in wastes: two come from rearranging its letters, and wastes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sweats and wastes. For points, the strongest plays are sweats, tawses, and wastes — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wastes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, stews, sweat, and waste. For points, the strongest plays are stews, swats, sweat, tawse, twaes, waste, wasts, wests, and wetas — 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 wastes produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, seas, seat, sets, sews, and stew. For points, the strongest plays are awes, saws, sews, staw, stew, swat, taws, tews, twae, twas, waes, wast, wats, west, weta, and wets — 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 wastes turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, eat, sat, saw, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are awe, saw, sew, taw, tew, twa, wae, was, wat, and wet — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wastes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 wastes 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.
wastes 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 wastes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record sixteen senses for wastes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
wastes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wastes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sweats, tawses, and wastes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wastes 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 wastes produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.