Unscramble CRESTA and you have 149 words, CRESTA itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 8 anagrams at 8 points each, among them CARETS, CARTES and CASTER. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from CRESTA split into 9 with 6 letters, 39 with 5, 53 with 4, 36 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Of the 39 5-letter words in CRESTA, 26 score 7 points, the group's best. RATES, ACRES and TRACE are the ones most people know.
22 of 53 4-letter words from CRESTA tie at 6 points; none scores more. CASE, CARE and RATE will look familiar.
Trade one tile of CRESTA for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 6-letter words: starting with CR · ending in TA · all 6-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CARETS, CARTES, CASTER, CATERS, CRATES, REACTS, RECAST and TRACES (8 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: CRESTA is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRESTA itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 149) | 128 | 149 | 116 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRESTA, ACERS, SCEAT, SCRAE, SCRAT, ACER, AESC, CEAS, ARETS, EARST, REAST, STEAR and 9 more, 21 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CERTS, CERT, TECS, RESAT, TASER, TEC, TASE, TRES, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 12 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of CRESTA plus a single extra one.