Hidden inside starters sit restarts and starters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
restarts and starters tie for the highest Scrabble score from starters at 8 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in starters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and starters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starters. For points, the strongest plays are restarts and starters — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in starters produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests and starter. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including arrests, starter and rasters.
Unscrambling starters turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest and stares. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, rarest and stares.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests and seats. For points, 42 words tie at 5 points, including rates, rests and seats.
Rearranging the letters in starters produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 46 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and east.
Unscrambling starters turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 31 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ass.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in starters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in starters 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.
starters 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 starters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for starters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
starters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are restarts and starters, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from starters 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 starters produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.