asterisms needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asterisms is the highest-scoring word from asterisms, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in asterisms — and it is asterisms itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asterisms. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asterism, massiest, misrates, misseats, mistress, smarties, and tsarisms, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in asterisms produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri, masters, resists, and sisters. For points, the strongest plays are imarets, maestri, massier, masters, miseats, misrate, misseat, missets, misters, samiest, samites, smartie, smiters, streams, tamises, and tsarism — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling asterisms turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, assist, master, misses, raises, resist, and sister. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, amrits, armets, armies, imaret, maists, marses, masers, masses, master, maters, matier, matres, merits, misate, miseat, misers, misses, misset, mister, miters, mitres, ramets, ramies, remiss, remits, samier, samite, seisms, simars, smarts, smears, smiter, smites, steams, stimes, stream, tamers, timers, and tmesis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asterisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, items, mates, meats, raise, rates, and rests. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amies, amirs, amiss, amrit, armet, emirs, emits, items, mairs, maist, mares, marse, marts, maser, mases, masse, masts, mater, mates, meats, merit, mesas, metis, mires, miser, mises, mists, miter, mites, mitre, ramet, ramie, reams, remit, rimes, satem, seams, seism, semis, simar, simas, smart, smear, smite, steam, stems, stime, stims, tamer, tames, tamis, teams, terms, timer, times, trams, trems, and trims — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in asterisms produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, arts, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amie, amir, amis, arms, emir, emit, isms, item, maes, mair, mare, mars, mart, mass, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, mess, meta, mire, mirs, mise, miss, mist, mite, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, sima, sims, smit, stem, stim, tame, tams, team, term, time, tram, trem, and trim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling asterisms turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, ems, ism, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, mir, mis, ram, rem, rim, sim, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asterisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in asterisms 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.
asterisms 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 two senses for asterisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
asterisms is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asterisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is asterisms, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from asterisms 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 asterisms produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.