Hidden inside alters sit alerts, alters, artels and 8 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alerts, alters, artels and 0 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from alters at 6 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 11 six-letter words hiding in alters: ten come from rearranging its letters, and alters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts and alters. For points, the strongest plays are alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, ratels, salter, slater, staler, stelar, and talers — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, laser, later, least, rates, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, arles, artel, aster, earls, lares, laser, later, lears, least, rales, ratel, rates, reals, resat, seral, setal, slate, stale, stare, steal, stela, taels, taler, tales, tares, taser, teals, tears, and tesla — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alters produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ares, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, lars, lase, last, late, lats, lear, leas, lest, lets, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, rest, rets, sale, salt, sate, seal, sear, seat, sera, seta, slat, star, tael, tale, tare, tars, tase, teal, tear, teas, tela, tels, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alters turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, els, era, ers, est, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, let, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tel, and tes — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
60 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in alters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alters and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
alters is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for alters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
alters is one of eleven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, ratels, salter, slater, staler, stelar, and talers, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alters earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in alters produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 11 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.