Hidden inside steering sit gentries, integers, reesting and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gentries, integers, reesting and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from steering at 9 points. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in steering: three come from rearranging its letters, and steering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steering. For points, the strongest plays are gentries, integers, reesting, and steering — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in steering produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries and resting. For points, the strongest plays are gerents, greisen, integer, regents, resting, stinger, and treeing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling steering turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, greets, resent, seeing, singer, and string. For points, the strongest plays are egrets, engirt, genets, genies, genres, gentes, gerent, greens, greets, ingest, regent, regies, reigns, renigs, resign, seeing, sering, signee, signer, signet, singer, stinge, string, teeing, tenges, tigers, and tinges — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, genes, green, greet, rents, rings, and risen. For points, the strongest plays are egers, egest, egret, geest, genes, genet, genie, genre, gents, geste, girns, girts, gites, green, grees, greet, grins, grist, grits, reges, regie, reign, renig, rings, segni, sengi, serge, siege, singe, sting, tenge, tiger, tinge, tings, and trigs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in steering produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, gets, nest, nets, rent, rest, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are eger, egis, engs, ergs, gees, gene, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gree, grin, grit, negs, regs, rigs, ring, sign, sing, tegs, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling steering turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, its, net, rig, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gee, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, neg, reg, rig, seg, sig, and teg — each worth 4 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 steering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
27 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in steering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steering 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.
steering 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 three senses for steering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
steering is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gentries, integers, reesting, and steering, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steering 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 steering produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.