Hidden inside stan sit ants, stan, and tans, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SATN, NATS or ASNT and you get the same 4 letters as STAN: so the words from STAN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ants, stan, and tans tie for the highest Scrabble score from stan at 4 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in stan: two come from rearranging its letters, and stan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants and tans. For points, the strongest plays are ants, stan, and tans — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
37 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in stan plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stan 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.
stan is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
stan is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ants, stan, and tans, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stan 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 stan produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.