Hidden inside sister sit resist, resits, and sister, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resist, resits, and sister tie for the highest Scrabble score from sister at 6 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in sister: two come from rearranging its letters, and sister itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist and sister. For points, the strongest plays are resist, resits, and sister — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, rises, sites, stirs, tires, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are resit, rests, rises, rites, sires, sites, sties, stirs, tiers, tires, tress, and tries — 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 sister produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise, sets, sirs, site, sits, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are erst, ests, ires, reis, rest, rets, rise, rite, seis, sers, sets, sire, sirs, site, sits, sris, stir, tier, ties, tire, and tres — 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 sister turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are ers, ess, est, ire, its, rei, res, ret, sei, ser, set, sir, sis, sit, sri, tes, tie, and tis — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
41 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sister plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sister 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.
sister 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 sister carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for sister. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
sister is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sister unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resist, resits, and sister, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sister 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 sister produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.