Hidden inside gaster sit gaster, gaters, grates and 4 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gaster, gaters, grates and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from gaster at 7 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 six-letter words hiding in gaster: six come from rearranging its letters, and gaster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gaster, gaters, grates and 4 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gaster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, great and rages. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including gates, great and rages.
Rearranging the letters in gaster produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts and ears. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gate and gets.
Unscrambling gaster turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and get.
32 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in gaster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gaster 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.
gaster 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
gaster is one of seven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gaster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gaster, gaters, grates, greats, retags, stager, and targes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gaster 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 gaster produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.