Hidden inside staring sit gastrin, gratins, ratings and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gastrin, gratins, ratings and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from staring at 8 points. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in staring: three come from rearranging its letters, and staring itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ratings and staring. For points, the strongest plays are gastrin, gratins, ratings, and staring — 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 staring turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, grants, rating, string, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are gainst, giants, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, rasing, rating, sating, strang, string, taring, and tasing — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, grant, rains, rings, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are agist, angst, gains, gaits, garni, giant, girns, girts, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grins, grist, grits, ragis, rangs, rings, signa, staig, stang, sting, tangs, tings, tragi, and trigs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in staring produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, gain, nags, rags, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gars, gast, gats, gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, nags, ragi, rags, rang, rigs, ring, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, tags, tang, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staring turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, gas, its, nag, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gan, gar, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, nag, rag, rig, sag, sig, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
35 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in staring plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in staring 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.
staring 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 2-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 staring. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
staring is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gastrin, gratins, ratings, and staring, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staring 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 staring produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.