Unscramble SAYEST to get 86 words. SAYEST itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 9 points: YEASTS. 9 shorter words score 8, among them ESSAY, YEAST and STAYS. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from SAYEST by length: 2 with 6 letters, 15 with 5, 28 with 4, 29 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of SAYEST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SA · ending in ST · all 6-letter words
SAYEST first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SAYEST, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAYEST itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 86) | 70 | 86 | 61 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: STEYS, YATES, YESTS, SEYS, SYES, TAYS, YATE, YEST, SEY, SYE, TAY, YAE and 4 more, 16 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EYASS, YAS, TASES, ESTS, TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 9 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of SAYEST and one more.