lodestars needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 596 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lodestars is the highest-scoring word from lodestars, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 596 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lodestars — and it is lodestars itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodestars. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assorted, delators, leotards, lodestar, oldsters, roadless, toadless, and torsades, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lodestars produces 34 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aldoses, dartles, delator, desalts, dorsals, dorsels, lassoed, leotard, loaders, oldster, ordeals, rassled, reloads, roasted, rodless, sarodes, solated, solders, and torsade, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lodestars turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, alerts, alters, lasers, lasted, losers, and oldest. For points, the strongest plays are adores, alders, aldose, dartle, daters, deltas, derats, desalt, dorsal, dorsel, dosers, dossal, dossel, dosser, doters, laders, lasted, loader, oldest, orated, ordeal, oreads, reload, resods, resold, retold, salted, sarode, sarods, slated, soared, solder, sorted, stades, staled, stared, steads, stoled, stored, strode, tossed, trades, treads, and tsades — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 174 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodestars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roads, roast, roles, roses, sales, salts, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are roads, rodes, rosed, sades, sards, sarod, sated, sleds, sodas, soled, sords, sored, stade, stead, tardo, tared, tased, adore, alder, dales, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, deals, dealt, dears, delta, delts, derat, doats, doers, doest, doles, dolts, dores, dorsa, dosas, doser, doses, dotal, doter, dotes, drats, dress, drest, dross, lader, lades, lards, lased, lated, leads, loads, lodes, lords, oared, older, oread, rased, rated, reads, redos, resod, toads, toled, trade, trads, tread, trode, and tsade — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lodestars produces 176 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts, lads, last, late, lead, and less. For points, the strongest plays are ados, lade, lads, lard, lead, load, lode, lord, odas, odea, odes, olde, olds, orad, rads, read, redo, reds, road, rode, rods, sade, sard, sled, soda, sods, sold, sord, dale, dals, dare, dart, date, dato, deal, dear, dels, delt, doat, doer, does, dole, dols, dolt, dore, dors, dosa, dose, doss, dost, dote, dots, drat, elds, tads, teds, toad, tods, toed, told, trad, and trod — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lodestars turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ass, ate, dot, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, dal, das, del, doe, dol, dor, dos, dot, eds, eld, lad, led, oda, ode, ods, old, rad, red, rod, sad, sod, tad, ted, and tod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodestars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in lodestars plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lodestars and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
lodestars 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for lodestars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
lodestars is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lodestars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lodestars, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lodestars 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 lodestars produce 596 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 174 five-letter words, 176 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.