Hidden inside astringes sit asserting, astringes, and ganisters, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 675 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asserting, astringes, and ganisters tie for the highest Scrabble score from astringes at 10 points. The top 10 of 675 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in astringes: two come from rearranging its letters, and astringes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asserting, astringes, and ganisters, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astringes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest. For points, the strongest plays are angriest, angstier, assigner, astringe, eastings, ganister, gantries, gastrins, genistas, giantess, granites, ingrates, rangiest, reassign, seatings, seringas, stingers, stranges, tasering, tressing, and trigness — 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 astringes produces 77 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, nastier, ratings, resting, seating, singers, and staring. For points, the strongest plays are ageists, aigrets, argents, earings, easting, eatings, erasing, gainers, gaiters, garnets, gassier, gasters, gastrin, genista, granite, gratine, gratins, ingates, ingesta, ingests, ingrate, ingress, ratings, reagins, regains, reginas, resigns, resting, sagiest, sangers, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, signers, signets, singers, stagers, stagier, staring, stinger, stinges, strange, strings, tagines, tangier, tearing, teasing, tigress, and triages — 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 astringes turns up 131 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, assign, easing, eating, giants, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, agists, aigret, angers, angsts, argent, assign, earing, easing, eating, engirt, gainer, gainst, gaiter, garnet, gasser, gaster, gaters, giants, gneiss, grains, grants, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, grists, ingate, ingest, ranges, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, resign, retags, sagest, sagier, sanger, sarges, sating, sering, signer, signet, singer, singes, stager, stages, staigs, stangs, stinge, stings, strang, string, tagine, targes, taring, tasing, tigers, tinges, and triage — 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 175 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astringes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner, seats, signs, sings, siren, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are sager, sages, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, signs, singe, sings, snags, stage, stags, staig, stang, sting, tangs, targe, terga, aegis, agent, agers, agist, anger, angst, gains, gaits, garni, gases, gasts, gater, gates, geans, gears, gents, gests, getas, giant, girns, girts, gists, gites, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grass, grate, great, grins, grist, grits, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, retag, rings, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, and trigs — 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 astringes produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, nags, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sags, sang, segs, sign, sigs, sing, snag, stag, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, tags, tang, tegs, ting, and trig — 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 astringes turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astringes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in astringes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in astringes 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.
astringes 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 2-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 astringes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
astringes is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astringes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asserting, astringes, and ganisters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astringes 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 astringes produce 675 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 77 seven-letter words, 131 six-letter words, 175 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.