Hidden inside stayers sit estrays and stayers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estrays and stayers tie for the highest Scrabble score from stayers at 10 points. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in stayers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stayers 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 estrays and stayers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stayers turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stares. For points, the strongest plays are estray, resays, satyrs, sayers, sayest, stayer, strays, tressy, yarest, and yeasts — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stayers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essay, rates, rests, seats, stare, stars, and stays. For points, the strongest plays are artsy, essay, eyass, eyras, resay, satyr, sayer, sayst, stays, stray, styes, 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 stayers produces 54 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, says, 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 stayers turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, aye, ear, and eat. 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 stayers. 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 stayers 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.
stayers 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 stayers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
stayers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stayers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estrays and stayers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stayers 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 stayers produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.