Hidden inside rist is one standout: stir, a four-letter play worth 4 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 10 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RIST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to STIR (verb), to pass an implement through in circular motions, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
stir is the highest-scoring word from rist, worth 4 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 10 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling rist produces exactly one four-letter word: stir. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
41 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in rist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rist and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stir, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rist 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 rist produce 10 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.