Hidden inside stayer sit estray, stayer, and yarest, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estray, stayer, and yarest tie for the highest Scrabble score from stayer at 9 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in stayer: two come from rearranging its letters, and stayer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estray, stayer, and yarest, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, tears, trays, and years. For points, the strongest plays are artsy, eyras, resay, satyr, sayer, stray, teary, trays, treys, tyers, tyres, years, and yeast — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stayer produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, easy, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are aery, arty, ayes, easy, eyas, eyra, rays, ryas, ryes, stay, stey, stye, tray, trey, tyer, tyes, tyre, yare, year, and yeas — 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 stayer turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, aye, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aye, ays, ray, rya, rye, say, sty, try, tye, yar, yas, yea, yer, yes, and yet — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in stayer 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.
stayer 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for stayer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stayer is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stayer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estray, stayer, and yarest, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stayer 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 stayer produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.