Hidden inside studiers sit diestrus, studiers, and sturdies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diestrus, studiers, and sturdies tie for the highest Scrabble score from studiers at 9 points. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in studiers: two come from rearranging its letters, and studiers 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 diestrus, studiers, and sturdies, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in studiers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with studies. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including studies, diseurs and dissert.
Unscrambling studiers turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, duties and resist. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including driest, duties and rudest.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in studiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dress and dries. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including diets, dress and dries.
Rearranging the letters in studiers produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dirt. For points, 32 words tie at 5 points, including dies, diet and dirt.
Unscrambling studiers turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and ids. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including die, due and ids.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in studiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in studiers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in studiers 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.
studiers 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.
studiers is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing studiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diestrus, studiers, and sturdies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from studiers 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 studiers produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.