Hidden inside starred sit darters, retards, starred and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darters, retards, starred and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from starred at 8 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in starred: three come from rearranging its letters, and starred itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retards and starred. For points, the strongest plays are darters, retards, starred, and traders — 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 starred turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest, retard, stared, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are darers, darter, daters, derats, drears, retard, stared, tarred, trader, trades, and treads — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starred. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, rates, reads, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are darer, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, derat, drats, drear, drest, rared, rased, rated, reads, sated, stade, stead, tared, tased, trade, trads, tread, and tsade — 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 starred produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dart, date, dear, drat, rads, read, reds, sade, sard, tads, teds, and trad — 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 starred turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, eds, rad, red, sad, tad, and ted — 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 starred. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — 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 starred 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.
starred 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 starred carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for starred. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
starred is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starred unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darters, retards, starred, and traders, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from starred 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 starred produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.