asteroids needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 599 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asteroids is the highest-scoring word from asteroids, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 599 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in asteroids — and it is asteroids itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asteroids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with disaster and steroids. For points, the strongest plays are assorted, asteroid, diasters, disaster, disrates, sarodist, steroids, and torsades — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in asteroids produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, steroid, and stories. For points, the strongest plays are adioses, aridest, astride, diaster, disrate, disseat, dissert, dossier, editors, iodates, radioes, roadies, roasted, sarodes, sortied, staider, steroid, storied, strides, tardies, tirades, toadies, torsade, and triodes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling asteroids turns up 101 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, driest, editor, radios, raised, raises, and resist. For points, the strongest plays are adores, adroit, aiders, airted, aroids, asides, daises, dassie, daters, deairs, deists, derats, desist, direst, dories, dosers, dosser, doters, dotier, driest, droits, editor, iodate, irades, odists, orated, oreads, radios, raised, redias, resaid, resids, resods, rioted, roadie, sadist, sarode, sarods, soared, sorted, stades, stared, steads, stored, stride, strode, tirade, todies, tossed, trades, treads, triads, triode, tsades, and tsadis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 179 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asteroids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roads, roast, roses, seats, sides, sites, and sodas. For points, the strongest plays are roads, rodes, roids, rosed, sades, sadis, saids, sards, sarod, sated, sides, sired, sited, sodas, sords, sored, stade, staid, stead, stied, tardo, tared, tased, adios, adits, adore, aider, aides, aired, aroid, aside, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, deair, dears, deist, derat, desis, diets, dirts, ditas, dites, doats, doers, doest, doits, dores, dorsa, dosai, dosas, doser, doses, doter, dotes, drats, dress, drest, dries, droit, dross, edits, eidos, ideas, irade, oared, odist, oread, radio, raids, rased, rated, reads, redia, redos, resid, resod, rides, tides, tired, toads, trade, trads, tread, triad, tried, trode, tsade, and tsadi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in asteroids produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, arts, rate, rats, read, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are adit, ados, aide, aids, arid, odas, odea, odes, orad, rads, raid, read, redo, reds, ride, rids, road, rode, rods, roid, sade, sadi, said, sard, side, soda, sods, sord, dais, dare, dart, date, dato, dear, desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, diss, dita, dite, dits, doat, doer, does, doit, dore, dors, dosa, dose, doss, dost, dote, dots, drat, edit, idea, ides, ired, tads, teds, tide, tied, toad, tods, toed, trad, and trod — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling asteroids turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, aid, das, die, dis, dit, doe, dor, dos, dot, eds, ids, oda, ode, ods, rad, red, rid, rod, sad, sod, tad, ted, and tod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asteroids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in asteroids plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in asteroids 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.
asteroids 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 asteroids carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for asteroids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
asteroids is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asteroids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is asteroids, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from asteroids 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 asteroids produce 599 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 101 six-letter words, 179 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.