Hidden inside asters sit assert, asters, stares and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assert, asters, stares and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from asters at 6 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in asters: three come from rearranging its letters, and asters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stares. For points, the strongest plays are assert, asters, stares, and tasers — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests, seats, stare, stars, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are arses, asset, aster, easts, rases, rates, resat, rests, sates, sears, seats, stare, stars, tares, taser, tases, tasse, tears, trass, tress, and tsars — 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 asters produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, ests, etas, rase, rate, rats, rest, rets, sate, sear, seas, seat, sera, sers, seta, sets, star, tare, tars, tase, tass, tear, teas, 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 asters turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, ers, ess, est, eta, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, 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.
46 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in asters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in asters 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.
asters 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 asters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for asters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
asters is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assert, asters, stares, and tasers, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from asters 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 asters produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.