Hidden inside megastar sit margates and megastar, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
margates and megastar tie for the highest Scrabble score from megastar at 11 points. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in megastar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and megastar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are margates and megastar, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in megastar produces 4 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 margate and regmata, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling megastar turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master. For points, the strongest plays are gamers, gamest, gramas, marges, and megara — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megastar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, games, gates, germs, great, mates, and meats. For points, the strongest plays are agmas, gamas, gamer, games, germs, grama, grams, mages, marge, margs, and regma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in megastar produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, area, arms, arts, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are agma, gama, game, gams, gems, germ, gram, mage, mags, marg, mega, and megs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling megastar turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, arm, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megastar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in megastar and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
megastar 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
megastar is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing megastar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are margates and megastar, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from megastar 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 megastar produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.