Hidden inside ulster sit luster, lustre, result and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
luster, lustre, result and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ulster at 6 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in ulster: five come from rearranging its letters, and ulster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with result. For points, the strongest plays are luster, lustre, result, rustle, sutler, and ulster — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lures and rules. For points, the strongest plays are lures, lutes, rules, trues, and tules — 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 ulster produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lure, rest, rule, sure, and true. For points, the strongest plays are erst, lest, lets, lues, lure, lust, lute, rest, rets, rues, rule, ruse, rust, ruts, slue, slur, slut, suer, suet, sure, tels, tres, true, tule, user, and utes — 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 ulster turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, set, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are els, ers, est, let, leu, res, ret, rue, rut, sel, ser, set, sue, tel, tes, use, ute, and uts — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, et, re, te, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
30 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ulster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ulster and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ulster 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 two senses for ulster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
ulster is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ulster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are luster, lustre, result, rustle, sutler, and ulster, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ulster 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 ulster produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.