Hidden inside sternum sit munster and sternum, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
munster and sternum tie for the highest Scrabble score from sternum at 9 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sternum: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sternum itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are munster and sternum, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sternum turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estrum, muster, and rumens, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menus, nurse, rents, terms, tunes, and turns. For points, the strongest plays are menus, mures, muser, muter, mutes, neums, rumen, serum, strum, terms, trems, and unmet — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sternum produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, must, nest, nets, nuts, rent, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are emus, menu, muns, mure, muse, must, mute, muts, neum, rems, rums, smut, stem, stum, term, trem, and tums — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sternum turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met, net, nut, rum, run, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ems, emu, men, mes, met, mun, mus, mut, rem, rum, sum, tum, and ums — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in sternum 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.
sternum 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for sternum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sternum is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sternum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are munster and sternum, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sternum 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 sternum produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.