Hidden inside sternums sit munsters and sternums, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
munsters and sternums tie for the highest Scrabble score from sternums at 10 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sternums: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sternums itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are munsters and sternums, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sternums produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estrums, munster, musters, rumness, 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 sternums turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nurses, sunset, and surest. For points, the strongest plays are estrum, musers, muster, rumens, sensum, serums, and strums — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternums. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menus, nests, nurse, rents, rests, stems, and terms. For points, the strongest plays are menus, mures, muser, muses, musts, muter, mutes, neums, rumen, serum, smuts, stems, strum, stums, 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 sternums produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, mess, must, nest, nets, nuts, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are emus, menu, mess, muns, mure, muse, muss, must, mute, muts, neum, rems, rums, smut, stem, stum, sums, 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 sternums turns up 40 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 sternums. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in sternums plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sternums and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
sternums 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 sternums. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sternums is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sternums unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are munsters and sternums, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sternums 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 sternums produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.