Hidden inside steered sit reested and steered, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reested and steered tie for the highest Scrabble score from steered at 8 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in steered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and steered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steered. For points, the strongest plays are reested and steered — 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 steered turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert and rested. For points, the strongest plays are desert, deters, reseed, rested, and seeder — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are deers, deets, deter, drees, drest, redes, reeds, seder, sered, steed, and treed — 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 steered produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, rest, seed, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are deer, dees, deet, dere, dree, rede, reds, reed, seed, teds, and teed — 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 steered turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are dee, eds, red, and ted — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steered. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
21 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in steered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steered and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
steered 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 steered carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
steered is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reested and steered, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steered 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 steered produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.