Hidden inside superstar sit pasturers and superstar, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 410 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pasturers and superstar tie for the highest Scrabble score from superstar at 11 points. The top 10 of 410 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in superstar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and superstar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with superstar. For points, the strongest plays are pasturers and superstar — each worth 11 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 superstar. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pasturer, pastures, raptures, spurters, and upstares, 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 superstar produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests and sparest. For points, the strongest plays are parsers, parters, parures, pasters, pasture, pausers, petasus, praters, pursers, rapture, raspers, repasts, sparers, sparest, sparser, spurter, uprates, uprears, upstare, and uptears — 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 superstar turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, assure, pauses, purest, purses, rarest, and setups. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, erupts, parers, pareus, parser, parses, parter, parure, passer, paster, pastes, paters, pauser, pauses, prases, prater, prates, prests, purest, purser, purses, rapers, rasper, repass, repast, setups, sparer, spares, sparse, spates, spears, sprats, sprues, spurts, stapes, straps, streps, stupas, stupes, supers, tapers, taupes, trapes, upases, uprate, uprear, upsets, and uptear — 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 118 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in superstar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, pasts, pause, press, purer, purse, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, apter, asper, erupt, parer, pares, pareu, parrs, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pater, pates, pause, pears, peart, peats, pests, prase, prate, prats, praus, presa, press, prest, pruta, purer, purrs, purse, puses, raper, rapes, rasps, reaps, septa, septs, setup, spaes, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, sprat, sprue, spues, spurs, spurt, sputa, steps, strap, strep, stupa, stupe, super, supes, supra, taper, tapes, tarps, taupe, tepas, traps, turps, and upset — 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 superstar produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and part. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pare, parr, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, pert, pest, pets, prat, prau, psst, pure, purr, purs, puss, puts, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, saps, seps, sept, spae, spar, spas, spat, spue, spur, step, supe, sups, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, trap, tups, upas, and urps — 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 superstar turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pst, pur, pus, put, rap, rep, sap, spa, sup, tap, tup, ups, and urp — 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 superstar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in superstar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in superstar and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
superstar 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 2-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 superstar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
superstar is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing superstar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pasturers and superstar, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from superstar 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 superstar produce 410 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 118 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.