Hidden inside steading sit sedating and steading, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 374 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sedating and steading tie for the highest Scrabble score from steading at 10 points. The top 10 of 374 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in steading: one comes from rearranging its letters, and steading itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sedating and steading, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steading produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with datings, instead, seating, and teasing. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including datings, agisted and angsted.
Unscrambling steading turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, dating and design. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including dating, design and gained.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aside and dates. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including dangs, degas and deign.
Rearranging the letters in steading produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and aids. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including aged, digs and dags.
Unscrambling steading turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and aid. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dag and gad.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
10 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in steading plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steading and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
steading 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
steading is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steading unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sedating and steading, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steading 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 steading produce 374 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.