Hidden inside stater sit stater, taster, taters and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stater, taster, taters and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stater at 6 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in stater: four come from rearranging its letters, and stater itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treats. For points, the strongest plays are stater, taster, taters, tetras, and treats — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, start, state, taste, tears, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are aster, rates, resat, stare, start, state, tares, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, testa, tetra, treat, and trets — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stater produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rest, rets, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, sett, star, stat, stet, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, test, tets, tres, tret, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stater turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tes, and tet — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
43 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in stater plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stater and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
stater 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 stater carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for stater. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
stater is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stater unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stater, taster, taters, tetras, and treats, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stater 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 stater produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.