Hidden inside keister sit keister and kiester, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
keister and kiester tie for the highest Scrabble score from keister at 11 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in keister: one comes from rearranging its letters, and keister itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are keister and kiester, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling keister turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strike. For points, the strongest plays are kiters, streek, strike, and trikes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in keister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kites, skirt and steer. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including kites, skirt and esker.
Rearranging the letters in keister produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kite, kits and rest. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including kite, kits and risk.
Unscrambling keister turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit and see. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including kit, ski and eek.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in keister plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in keister 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.
keister 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 keister carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for keister. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
keister is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing keister unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are keister and kiester, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from keister 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 keister produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.