Hidden inside ulsters sit lusters, lustres, results and 3 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lusters, lustres, results and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ulsters at 7 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 seven-letter words hiding in ulsters: five come from rearranging its letters, and ulsters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with results. For points, the strongest plays are lusters, lustres, results, rustles, sutlers, and ulsters — 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 ulsters turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with result and surest. For points, the strongest plays are estrus, luster, lustre, result, russet, rustle, surest, sutler, tusser, tussle, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulsters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lures, rests, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are lures, lusts, lutes, rests, rules, ruses, rusts, slues, slurs, sluts, suers, suets, tress, trues, truss, tules, and users — 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 ulsters produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lure, rest, rule, sets, and sues. For points, the strongest plays are erst, ests, less, lest, lets, lues, lure, lust, lute, rest, rets, rues, rule, ruse, rust, ruts, sels, sers, sets, slue, slur, slut, suer, sues, suet, sure, tels, tres, true, tule, user, uses, 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 ulsters turns up 20 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, ess, est, let, leu, res, ret, rue, rut, sel, ser, set, sue, sus, 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 ulsters. 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.
Swap a single tile in ulsters 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.
ulsters 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 ulsters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ulsters is one of six seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ulsters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lusters, lustres, results, rustles, sutlers, and ulsters, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ulsters 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 ulsters produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.