stargaze needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stargaze is the highest-scoring word from stargaze, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in stargaze — and it is stargaze itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stargaze produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gastrea and teargas, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stargaze turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gazars, gazers, and grazes, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stargaze. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, gates, great, rages, rates, stage, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are agaze, gazar, gazer, gazes, and graze — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stargaze produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, area, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are gaze and zags — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stargaze turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is zag — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stargaze. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 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 stargaze 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.
stargaze 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for stargaze. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
stargaze is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stargaze unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stargaze, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stargaze 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 stargaze produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.