Hidden inside sterigmas sit magisters and sterigmas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 549 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magisters and sterigmas tie for the highest Scrabble score from sterigmas at 12 points. The top 10 of 549 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sterigmas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sterigmas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are magisters and sterigmas, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sterigmas. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gisarmes, magister, migrates, ragtimes, and sterigma, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sterigmas produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri and masters. For points, the strongest plays are ageisms, gamiest, gisarme, imagers, migrate, mirages, ragtime, sigmate, and stigmas — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sterigmas turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, images, master, raises, resist, sister, and stages. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, agisms, gamers, gamest, gamier, grimes, imager, images, maigre, marges, megass, mirage, sigmas, and stigma — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 151 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sterigmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games, gases, gates, germs, grass, great, and image. For points, the strongest plays are agism, gamer, games, germs, grams, grime, image, mages, marge, margs, regma, and sigma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sterigmas produces 153 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, arms, arts, mass, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, gems, germ, gram, and grim — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sterigmas turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, art, and ass. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sterigmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sterigmas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sterigmas 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.
sterigmas 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.
sterigmas is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sterigmas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are magisters and sterigmas, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sterigmas 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 sterigmas produce 549 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 151 five-letter words, 153 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.