starling needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 313 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
starling is the highest-scoring word from starling, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 313 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in starling — and it is starling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in starling produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, ratings, and staring. For points, the strongest plays are gastrin, gratins, lasting, ratings, salting, slating, staling, 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 starling turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, grants, rating, signal, string, trails, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, argils, gainst, gaslit, giants, glairs, glints, gnarls, grails, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, rasing, rating, sating, signal, 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 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, girls, grant, liars, nails, and rains. For points, the strongest plays are agist, algin, align, angst, argil, gains, gaits, garni, giant, gilts, girls, girns, girts, glair, glans, glias, glint, gnarl, gnars, gnats, grail, grain, grans, grant, grins, grist, grits, liang, ligan, linga, lings, ragis, rangs, rings, sigla, signa, slang, sling, 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 starling produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, gain, gals, girl, and last. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gals, gars, gast, gats, gilt, gins, girl, girn, girt, gist, gits, glia, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, lags, lang, ling, nags, ragi, rags, rang, rigs, ring, sang, sign, sing, slag, 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 starling turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, gal, gas, its, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gal, gan, gar, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, lag, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starling. 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.
Swap a single tile in starling 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.
starling 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for starling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
starling is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is starling, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from starling 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 starling produce 313 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.