Hidden inside staters sit starets, staters, and tasters, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
starets, staters, and tasters tie for the highest Scrabble score from staters at 7 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in staters: two come from rearranging its letters, and staters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are starets, staters, and tasters, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staters turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stares, starts, states, tastes, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are assert, asters, stares, starts, stater, states, tasers, tasset, taster, tastes, 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests, seats, stare, stars, start, and state. For points, the strongest plays are arses, asset, aster, easts, rases, rates, resat, rests, sates, sears, seats, setts, stare, stars, start, state, stats, stets, tares, tarts, taser, tases, tasse, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, testa, tests, tetra, trass, treat, tress, trets, and tsars — 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 staters produces 43 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, ests, etas, rase, rate, rats, rest, rets, sate, sear, seas, seat, sera, sers, seta, sets, sett, star, stat, stet, tare, tars, tart, tase, tass, 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 staters turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, ers, ess, 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 staters. 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.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in staters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in staters 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.
staters 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 staters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for staters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
staters is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are starets, staters, and tasters, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staters 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 staters produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.