26 words come out when you unscramble YESTS, starting with YESTS itself: 8 in Scrabble, 7 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of YESTS are on the page: STEYS and STYES, each 8 points. The best shorter words score 7: 6 of them, SEYS, STEY and STYE included. It has 5 letters, 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from YESTS split into 3 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 10 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of YESTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with YE · ending in TS · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; STYES (8 points) takes the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts YESTS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| YESTS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 26) | 18 | 26 | 14 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 8 of them: STEYS, YESTS, SEYS, SYES, YEST, SEY, SYE and ST. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: ESTS, EST, TES and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of YESTS and one more.