steadfast needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
steadfast is the highest-scoring word from steadfast, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in steadfast — and it is steadfast itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steadfast produces exactly one eight-letter word: stedfast. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steadfast produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fastest. For points, the strongest play is daftest — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steadfast turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with safest, states, tasted, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are defats, fasted, and fatted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadfast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, fates and seats. For points, the strongest plays are defat, fades, and fated — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steadfast produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with data, date and deaf. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, daft and deft.
Unscrambling steadfast turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ass and ate. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadfast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in steadfast and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
steadfast 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 steadfast carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for steadfast. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
steadfast is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steadfast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is steadfast, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from steadfast 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 steadfast produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.