No word spells WASTEDE. Unscramble WASTEDE instead and you have 168 words, and the best is SWEATED at 11 points. Among the shorter answers, 7 reach 10 points, WASTED, STEWED and STAWED among them. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Counting the words from WASTEDE by length: 1 with 7 letters, 12 with 6, 37 with 5, 58 with 4, 43 with 3 and 17 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in WASTEDE: SWEATED, 11 points.
Among 37 5-letter words from WASTEDE, the top score is 9, reached by 12. WASTE, DATES and SWEET are the familiar ones.
11 of 58 4-letter words you get when you unscramble WASTEDE tie at 8 points; none scores more. DATE, WEST and EAST will look familiar.
Keep every letter of WASTEDE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with SW · ending in ED · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by SWEATED (11 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
None of the three games accepts WASTEDE itself. Its letters still make 168 playable words, split by game below.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASTEDE itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 168) | 137 | 168 | 124 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
31 of the 168 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: STAWED, WESTED, DEAWS, SWEED, WADTS, DEAW, EWEST, SWAD, WADT, EASTED, EWTS, SWEE and 19 more. 13 of the 168 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: WETAS, WETA, EEW, TASED, EW, DAS, EDS, TASE, ATS, DA, EST, TES and 1 more.
These 4 words take every letter of WASTEDE plus a single extra one.