oldster needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oldster is the highest-scoring word from oldster, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in oldster — and it is oldster itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oldster turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oldest and sorted. For points, the strongest plays are dorsel, doters, oldest, resold, retold, solder, sorted, stoled, stored, and strode — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oldster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lords, loser, older, roles, stole, and store. For points, the strongest plays are delts, doers, doest, doles, dolts, dores, doser, doter, dotes, drest, lodes, lords, older, redos, resod, rodes, rosed, soled, sored, toled, and trode — 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 oldster produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, lets, lord, lose, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest plays are dels, delt, doer, does, dole, dols, dolt, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, elds, lode, lord, odes, olde, olds, redo, reds, rode, rods, sled, sold, sord, teds, tods, toed, told, 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 oldster turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, led, let, lot, old, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are del, doe, dol, dor, dos, dot, eds, eld, led, ode, ods, old, red, rod, sod, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oldster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in oldster 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.
oldster 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 one sense for oldster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
oldster is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oldster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oldster, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oldster 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 oldster produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.