Hidden inside sorters sit resorts, rosters, sorters and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resorts, rosters, sorters and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sorters at 7 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in sorters: three come from rearranging its letters, and sorters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resorts, rosters, sorters, 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 sorters turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorest and stores. For points, the strongest plays are resort, retros, rosets, roster, sorest, sorter, sortes, storer, stores, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, roses, sorer, sorts, and store. For points, the strongest plays are rests, retro, roses, roset, rotes, sorer, sores, sorts, store, tores, torrs, torse, and tress — 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 sorters produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rose, sets, sore, sort, toes, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are eros, errs, erst, ests, ores, orts, oses, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, sers, sets, sore, sort, sots, toes, tore, torr, tors, toss, 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 sorters turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set and toe. For points, the strongest plays are err, ers, ess, est, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, ser, set, sos, sot, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, 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.
24 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sorters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sorters and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sorters 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 sorters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for sorters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
sorters is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sorters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resorts, rosters, sorters, and storers, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sorters 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 sorters produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.