Hidden inside starshines sit starshines and trashiness, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 632 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
starshines and trashiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from starshines at 13 points. The top 10 of 632 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in starshines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and starshines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are starshines and trashiness, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling starshines turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hastiness, starshine, and tarnishes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starshines. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anthesis, ashiness, hairnets and 7 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in starshines produces 66 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier, resists, sisters, and trashes. For points, 29 words tie at 10 points, including trashes, anthers and arshins.
Unscrambling starshines turns up 117 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, hearts and raises. For points, 43 words tie at 9 points, including hearts, rashes and shares.
There are 169 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starshines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner and seats. For points, 58 words tie at 8 points, including share, shier and shine.
Rearranging the letters in starshines produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 52 words tie at 7 points, including rash, hair and hate.
Unscrambling starshines turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starshines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in starshines plus one additional letter.
starshines 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.
starshines is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starshines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are starshines and trashiness, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from starshines 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 starshines produce 632 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 66 seven-letter words, 117 six-letter words, 169 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.