Hidden inside sternae sit earnest, eastern, nearest and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 197 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
STERNAE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EARNEST, EASTERN, NEAREST and STERANE.
earnest, eastern, nearest and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sternae at 7 points. The top 10 of 197 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in sternae produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern and nearest. For points, the strongest plays are earnest, eastern, nearest, and sterane — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sternae turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters, neater, resent, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are antres, arenes, aretes, astern, easter, eaters, enates, entera, enters, neater, nester, ranees, renest, rentes, reseat, resent, sateen, seater, senate, sterna, teaser, tenser, ternes, and treens — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eaten, enter, erase, rates, rents, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are antes, antre, arene, arete, aster, earns, easer, eaten, eater, enate, enter, erase, ernes, ester, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, ranee, rants, rates, reest, rente, rents, resat, reset, saner, saree, sente, setae, snare, sneer, stane, stare, steer, stere, stern, tares, tarns, taser, tears, tease, teens, tense, teres, terne, terns, terse, trans, treen, and trees — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sternae produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are anes, ante, ants, ares, arse, arts, ates, earn, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erne, erns, erst, esne, etas, etna, naes, nare, near, neat, nest, nets, rant, rase, rate, rats, rees, rent, rest, rete, rets, sane, sate, sear, seat, seen, seer, sene, sent, sera, sere, seta, stan, star, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tase, tear, teas, teen, tees, tens, tern, tree, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sternae turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ane, ant, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, est, eta, nae, nee, net, ran, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, san, sat, sea, see, sen, ser, set, tae, tan, tar, tas, tea, tee, ten, and tes — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
39 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sternae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sternae 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earnest, eastern, nearest, and sterane, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sternae 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 sternae produce 197 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.