Hidden inside astern sit antres, astern, and sterna, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antres, astern, and sterna tie for the highest Scrabble score from astern at 6 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in astern: two come from rearranging its letters, and astern itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antres, astern, and sterna, 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, rates, rents, saner, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are antes, antre, aster, earns, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, rants, rates, rents, resat, saner, snare, stane, stare, stern, tares, tarns, taser, tears, terns, and trans — 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 astern produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are anes, ante, ants, ares, arse, arts, ates, earn, ears, east, eats, eras, erns, erst, etas, etna, naes, nare, near, neat, nest, nets, rant, rase, rate, rats, rent, rest, rets, sane, sate, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, stan, star, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tase, tear, teas, tens, tern, 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 astern turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ane, ant, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, ens, era, ern, ers, est, eta, nae, net, ran, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, san, sat, sea, sen, ser, set, tae, tan, tar, tas, tea, ten, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, 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.
59 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in astern plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in astern 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.
astern 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 astern. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
astern is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astern unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antres, astern, and sterna, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astern 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 astern produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.