Hidden inside stares sit assert, asters, stares and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RSSTEA, SETSRA or RESTAS and you get the same 6 letters as STARES: so the words from STARES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
assert, asters, stares and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stares at 6 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in stares: three come from rearranging its letters, and stares itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stares. For points, the strongest plays are assert, asters, stares, and tasers — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests and seats. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including rates, rests and seats.
Rearranging the letters in stares produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 33 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and east.
Unscrambling stares turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 27 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ass.
46 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in stares plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stares 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.
stares 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 stares carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for stares. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
stares is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assert, asters, stares, and tasers, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stares 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 stares produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.