asterisks needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 331 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asterisks is the highest-scoring word from asterisks, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 331 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in asterisks — and it is asterisks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asterisks. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asterisk and sarkiest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in asterisks produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kissers, resists, sisters, and strikes. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including kissers, strikes and askesis.
Unscrambling asterisks turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, kisser and kisses. For points, 27 words tie at 10 points, including kisser, kisses and skates.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asterisks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, kites and raise. For points, 43 words tie at 9 points, including kites, risks and sakes.
Rearranging the letters in asterisks produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and asks. For points, 36 words tie at 8 points, including asks, kiss and kite.
Unscrambling asterisks turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including ask, kit and ski.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asterisks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in asterisks and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
asterisks 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in asterisks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for asterisks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
asterisks is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asterisks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is asterisks, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from asterisks 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 asterisks produce 331 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.