Hidden inside roasters sit assertor, assorter, oratress and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assertor, assorter, oratress and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from roasters at 8 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in roasters: four come from rearranging its letters, and roasters 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 assertor, assorter, oratress, reassort, and roasters, 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 roasters produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests. For points, the strongest plays are arrests, osetras, ossetra, rasters, resorts, roaster, rosters, sartors, soarers, sorters, starers, and storers — 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 roasters turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest, roasts, sorest, stares, and stores. For points, the strongest plays are arrest, assert, assort, asters, oaters, orates, osetra, rarest, rasers, raster, raters, resort, retros, roasts, rosets, roster, rostra, sartor, serosa, soarer, sorest, sorter, sortes, starer, stares, storer, stores, tarres, tasers, terras, torses, tosser, and tsores — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in roasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests, roast, roses, seats, sorer, and sorts. For points, the strongest plays are arose, arses, asset, aster, easts, oases, oasts, oater, orate, rares, raser, rases, rater, rates, ratos, rears, resat, rests, retro, roars, roast, roses, roset, rotas, rotes, saros, sates, sears, seats, soars, soras, sorer, sores, sorta, sorts, stare, stars, stoae, stoas, store, tares, taros, tarre, taser, tases, tasse, tasso, tears, terra, toeas, toras, tores, torrs, torse, tosas, trass, tress, and tsars — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in roasters produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rare, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are aero, ares, aros, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, eros, errs, erst, ests, etas, oars, oast, oats, ores, orra, orts, osar, oses, ossa, rare, rase, rate, rato, rats, rear, rest, rets, roar, roes, rose, rota, rote, rots, sate, sear, seas, seat, sera, sers, seta, sets, soar, sora, sore, sort, sots, star, stoa, taos, tare, taro, tars, tase, tass, tear, teas, toea, toes, tora, tore, torr, tors, tosa, toss, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling roasters turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are are, aro, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, err, ers, ess, est, eta, oar, oat, oes, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, ras, rat, res, ret, roe, rot, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, sos, sot, tae, tao, tar, tas, tea, tes, toe, and tor — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in roasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, ta, te, and to — each worth 2 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 roasters 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.
roasters 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in roasters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for roasters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
roasters is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing roasters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assertor, assorter, oratress, reassort, and roasters, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from roasters 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 roasters produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.