Hidden inside testaments sit statements and testaments, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 265 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
statements and testaments tie for the highest Scrabble score from testaments at 12 points. The top 10 of 265 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in testaments: one comes from rearranging its letters, and testaments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statements. For points, the strongest plays are statements and testaments — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling testaments turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with statement. For points, the strongest plays are nestmates, statement, statesmen, and testament — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testaments. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nestmate and tameness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in testaments produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estates, meanest, neatest, and tensest. For points, the strongest plays are meanest, metates, and stamens — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling testaments turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, sanest, states, steams, tastes, and teases. For points, the strongest plays are aments, enemas, manses, mantes, mattes, mensae, mensas, menses, mesnes, messan, metate, seamen, semens, sesame, stamen, steams, tamest, and tmeses — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, eaten, mates, means, meant, meats, and meets. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, enema, manes, manse, mases, masse, masts, mates, matte, matts, means, meant, meats, meets, mensa, mense, menta, mesas, mesne, metes, names, neems, nemas, satem, seams, seems, semen, semes, steam, stems, tames, teams, and teems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in testaments produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, ease, east, eats, mass, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are amen, emes, maes, mane, mans, mass, mast, mate, mats, matt, mean, meat, meet, mesa, mess, meta, mete, name, neem, nema, same, seam, seem, seme, stem, tame, tams, team, and teem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling testaments turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, man, men, and met. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, mae, man, mas, mat, men, mes, met, nam, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in testaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
testaments 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for testaments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
testaments is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing testaments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are statements and testaments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from testaments 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 testaments produce 265 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.