51 words come out when you unscramble TESTA, starting with TESTA itself: 5 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. TESTA has 5 anagrams here, ETATS, STATE, TASTE, TATES and TEATS, scoring 5 like TESTA itself. The best shorter words score 4: 19 of them, TEST, EAST and SEAT included. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Words from TESTA by length: 6 with 5 letters, 19 with 4, 17 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of TESTA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with TE · ending in TA · all 5-letter words
What TESTA means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TESTA, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TESTA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 51) | 45 | 51 | 40 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
6 of the 51 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ETATS, ETAT, TAES, EAS, EA and ST. 5 of the 51 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of TESTA plus a single extra one.