Hidden inside stories sit rosiest, sorites, sorties and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble REOSIST, SORIEST or SOSTEIR and you get the same 7 letters as STORIES: so the words from STORIES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
rosiest, sorites, sorties and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stories at 7 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in stories: four come from rearranging its letters, and stories itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stories. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including stories, rosiest and sorites.
Unscrambling stories turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist, sister, sorest, and stores. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including resist, sister and sorest.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, riots and rises. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including rests, riots and rises.
Rearranging the letters in stories produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, riot and rise. For points, 42 words tie at 4 points, including rest, riot and rise.
Unscrambling stories turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set and sir. For points, 29 words tie at 3 points, including its, set and sir.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and or. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including is, it and or.
22 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in stories plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stories 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.
stories 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in stories carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for stories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
stories is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rosiest, sorites, sorties, stories, and trioses, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stories 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 stories produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.