sternwards needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 512 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sternwards is the highest-scoring word from sternwards, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 512 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in sternwards — and it is sternwards itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sternwards turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sternward, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternwards. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stewards and wardress, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sternwards produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answers, arrests, drawers, errands, retards, rewards, and starred. For points, the strongest plays are drawers, redrawn, redraws, rewards, steward, strawed, wadsets, wanders, wardens, warders, and wessand — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sternwards turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer, arrest, drawer, errand, rarest, rawest, and retard. For points, the strongest plays are dewans, dewars, drawer, redraw, reward, snawed, swards, tawsed, waders, wadset, wander, wanted, warden, warder, warned, warred, warted, and wasted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 148 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternwards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dawns, dears, drawn, draws, and dress. For points, the strongest plays are awned, dawen, dawns, dawts, dewan, dewar, drawn, draws, sawed, sward, tawed, wader, wades, wands, waned, wards, wared, and wends — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sternwards produces 138 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, dare, date, dawn, dear, and draw. For points, the strongest plays are awed, dawn, daws, dawt, dews, draw, drew, wade, wads, wand, ward, weds, and wend — 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 sternwards turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, are, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sternwards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
sternwards 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sternwards is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sternwards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sternwards, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sternwards 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 sternwards produce 512 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 148 five-letter words, 138 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.