Hidden inside roasts sit assort and roasts, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assort and roasts tie for the highest Scrabble score from roasts at 6 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in roasts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and roasts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roasts. For points, the strongest plays are assort and roasts — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in roasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, sorts, and stars. For points, the strongest plays are oasts, ratos, roast, rotas, saros, soars, soras, sorta, sorts, stars, stoas, taros, tasso, toras, tosas, trass, 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 roasts produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, rats, sort, star, and toss. For points, the strongest plays are aros, arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, ossa, rato, rats, rota, rots, soar, sora, sort, sots, star, stoa, taos, taro, tars, tass, tora, tors, tosa, toss, 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 roasts turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, ass, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aro, ars, art, ass, ats, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, ras, rat, rot, sat, sos, sot, tao, tar, tas, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in roasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, 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 roasts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
roasts 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 roasts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for roasts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
roasts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing roasts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assort and roasts, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from roasts 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 roasts produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.