Hidden inside waisted sit dawties and waisted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dawties and waisted tie for the highest Scrabble score from waisted at 11 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in waisted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waisted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dawties and waisted, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling waisted turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with waited, wasted, and widest. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including waited, wasted and widest.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waisted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates and diets. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including dawts, sawed and tawed.
Rearranging the letters in waisted produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date and dies. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including wide, awed and daws.
Unscrambling waisted turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ate. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waisted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in waisted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in waisted and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
waisted 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 waisted carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
waisted is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waisted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dawties and waisted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waisted 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 waisted produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.