Hidden inside fasters is one standout: strafes, a seven-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FREASTS, STAFERS or FRASSET and you get the same 7 letters as FASTERS: so the words from FASTERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
FASTERS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to STRAFES (verb, form of strafe), to attack with machine-gun fire from an airplane, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
strafes is the highest-scoring word from fasters, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling fasters produces exactly one seven-letter word: strafes. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fasters turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, safest, and stares. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including faster, safest and afters.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates and fears. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including after, fates and fears.
Rearranging the letters in fasters produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including fast, fate and fear.
Unscrambling fasters turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including far, fat and aft.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in fasters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fasters 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is strafes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fasters 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 fasters produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.