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.
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, the strongest plays are rosiest, sorites, sorties, stories, and trioses — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
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, the strongest plays are osiers, resist, resits, rosets, rostis, seisor, sister, sorest, sortes, sortie, stores, tories, torses, tosser, triose, tsores, and tsoris — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, rises, roses, sites, sorts, and stirs. For points, the strongest plays are osier, resit, rests, riots, rises, rites, roses, roset, rosti, rotes, rotis, sires, sites, sores, sorts, sties, stirs, store, tiers, tires, tiros, tores, torse, torsi, tress, tries, trios, and trois — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in stories produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, riot, rise, rose, sets, sirs, and site. For points, the strongest plays are eros, erst, ests, ires, ores, orts, oses, reis, rest, rets, riot, rise, rite, roes, rose, rote, roti, rots, seis, sers, sets, sire, sirs, site, sits, sore, sori, sort, sots, sris, stir, tier, ties, tire, tiro, toes, tore, tori, tors, toss, tres, and trio — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling stories turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sir, sit, tie, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are ers, ess, est, ire, its, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, rei, res, ret, roe, rot, sei, ser, set, sir, sis, sit, sos, sot, sri, tes, tie, tis, toe, and tor — each worth 3 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 stories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
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.