Hidden inside vasta is one standout: avast, a five-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TAVSA, VSATA or ATASV and you get the same 5 letters as VASTA: so the words from VASTA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
VASTA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AVAST (interjection), used as a command to stop, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
avast is the highest-scoring word from vasta, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling vasta produces exactly one five-letter word: avast. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vasta produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tavs, vasa, vast, and vats, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in vasta and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is avast, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vasta 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 vasta produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.