steerable needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 363 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
steerable is the highest-scoring word from steerable, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 363 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in steerable — and it is steerable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steerable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arbelest, beetlers, blearest and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steerable produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relates and release. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including beaters, beetler and beetles.
Unscrambling steerable turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts and alters. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including ablest, barest and breast.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steerable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alert and alter. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including abler, bears and beast.
Rearranging the letters in steerable produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, arts and bare. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including able, bare and bars.
Unscrambling steerable turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bee.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steerable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in steerable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steerable 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.
steerable 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for steerable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
steerable is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steerable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is steerable, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from steerable 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 steerable produce 363 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.