Hidden inside yeasts sit sayest and yeasts, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sayest and yeasts tie for the highest Scrabble score from yeasts at 9 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in yeasts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yeasts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sayest and yeasts, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yeasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essay, seats, and stays. For points, the strongest plays are essay, eyass, sayst, stays, styes, and yeast — 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 yeasts produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, easy, eats, says, seas, seat, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are ayes, easy, eyas, says, stay, stey, stye, tyes, and yeas — 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 yeasts turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, aye, eat, sat, say, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aye, ays, say, sty, tye, yas, yea, yes, and yet — 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 yeasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — 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 yeasts 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.
yeasts 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for yeasts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
yeasts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yeasts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sayest and yeasts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yeasts 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 yeasts produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.