Hidden inside polestar sit petrosal and polestar, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 536 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
petrosal and polestar tie for the highest Scrabble score from polestar at 10 points. The top 10 of 536 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in polestar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and polestar 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 petrosal and polestar, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polestar produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patrols and portals. For points, the strongest plays are apostle, esparto, palters, paroles, patrols, pelotas, persalt, petrols, plaster, platers, portals, prolate, proteas, psalter, replots, reposal, seaport, and stapler — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling polestar turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, operas, patrol, plates, portal, and poster. For points, the strongest plays are aslope, lapser, lopers, operas, paleos, palest, palets, palter, pareos, parles, parole, parols, pastel, paster, pastor, paters, patrol, pearls, pelota, petals, petrol, plater, plates, pleats, polars, polers, portal, postal, poster, prates, presto, proles, protea, repast, replot, repost, repots, respot, sapote, septal, sloper, soaper, splore, sporal, staple, stoper, tapers, tepals, topers, trapes, and tropes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polestar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, laser, later, leaps, leapt, and least. For points, the strongest plays are apers, aport, apres, apter, asper, estop, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, loper, lopes, opals, opera, paleo, paler, pales, palet, pareo, pares, parle, parol, parse, parts, paseo, paste, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, peats, pelts, pesto, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plots, poets, polar, poler, poles, pores, ports, poser, praos, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, proas, prole, prose, prost, psoae, rapes, reaps, repos, repot, ropes, salep, sapor, sepal, septa, slept, slope, spale, spare, spate, spear, spelt, splat, spore, sport, sprat, stope, strap, strep, strop, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, toper, topes, traps, and trope — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polestar produces 176 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes, arts, laps, last, late, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apos, apse, atop, laps, larp, leap, lept, lope, lops, opal, opas, opes, opts, pale, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, pelt, pert, peso, pest, pets, plat, plea, plot, poet, pole, pols, pore, port, pose, post, pots, prao, prat, proa, pros, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, salp, sept, slap, slop, soap, spae, spar, spat, spot, step, stop, epos, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tope, tops, trap, and trop — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling polestar turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apo, apt, asp, lap, lop, opa, ope, ops, opt, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pol, pos, pot, pro, pst, rap, rep, sap, sop, spa, tap, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polestar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — 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 polestar 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.
polestar 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for polestar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
polestar is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polestar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are petrosal and polestar, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from polestar 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 polestar produce 536 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 176 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.