Hidden inside latest sit latest and lattes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
latest and lattes tie for the highest Scrabble score from latest at 6 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in latest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and latest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: latest and lattes, worth 6 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in latest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latte, least, state, steal, tales, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are latte, least, setal, slate, stale, state, steal, stela, taels, tales, taste, tates, teals, teats, tesla, and testa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in latest produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, last, late, lets, sale, and salt. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ates, east, eats, etas, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, seta, sett, slat, stat, stet, tael, tale, tase, tate, tats, teal, teas, teat, tela, tels, test, and tets — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling latest turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, let, sat, sea, set, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ate, ats, att, eat, els, est, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tat, tea, tel, tes, and tet — each worth 3 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 latest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, ta, and te — each worth 2 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 latest 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.
latest 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 three senses for latest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
latest is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing latest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are latest and lattes, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from latest 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 latest produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.