Hidden inside sisters sit resists and sisters, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble STERSIS, SSIRTES or TISSRES and you get the same 7 letters as SISTERS: so the words from SISTERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
resists and sisters tie for the highest Scrabble score from sisters at 7 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sisters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sisters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: resists and sisters, worth 7 points apiece in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sisters turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist, sister, and stress. For points, the strongest plays are resist, resits, sister, and stress — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sisters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, rises and sites. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including rests, rises and sites.
Rearranging the letters in sisters produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise and sets. For points, 21 words tie at 4 points, including rest, rise and sets.
Unscrambling sisters turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set and sir. For points, 18 words tie at 3 points, including its, set and sir.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sisters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sisters and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sisters 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 sisters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for sisters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
sisters is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sisters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resists and sisters, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sisters 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 sisters produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.