Hidden inside blasters sit blasters and stablers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blasters and stablers tie for the highest Scrabble score from blasters at 10 points. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in blasters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blasters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blasters and stablers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blasters produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breasts. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including breasts, barless and basters.
Unscrambling blasters turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts and alters. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including ablest, barest and beasts.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alert and alter. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including abler, bases and bears.
Rearranging the letters in blasters produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, arts and bare. For points, 35 words tie at 6 points, including able, bare and bars.
Unscrambling blasters turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in blasters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blasters and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
blasters 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 one sense for blasters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
blasters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blasters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blasters and stablers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blasters 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 blasters produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.