Hidden inside steers sit esters, reests, resets and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
esters, reests, resets and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from steers at 6 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in steers: five come from rearranging its letters, and steers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steers. For points, the strongest plays are esters, reests, resets, serest, steers, and steres — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are erses, ester, reest, reses, reset, rests, seers, seres, steer, stere, teres, terse, trees, and tress — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in steers produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, sees, sets, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are erst, eses, esse, ests, rees, rest, rete, rets, seer, sees, sere, sers, sets, tees, tree, and tres — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling steers turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and set. For points, the strongest plays are ere, ers, ess, est, ree, res, ret, see, ser, set, tee, and tes — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steers. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, et, re, and te, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
38 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in steers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
steers 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 steers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for steers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
steers is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are esters, reests, resets, serest, steers, and steres, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steers 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 steers produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.