Hidden inside waster sit rawest, tawers, waster and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rawest, tawers, waster and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from waster at 9 points. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in waster: three come from rearranging its letters, and waster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rawest and waters. For points, the strongest plays are rawest, tawers, waster, and waters — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, straw, swear, sweat, tears, and waste. For points, the strongest plays are resaw, sawer, sewar, straw, strew, sware, swart, swear, sweat, tawer, tawse, trews, twaes, wares, warts, waste, water, wears, wetas, and wrest — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in waster produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are awes, raws, staw, stew, swat, taws, tews, twae, twas, waes, ware, wars, wart, wast, wats, wear, wert, west, weta, and wets — 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 waster turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are awe, raw, saw, sew, taw, tew, twa, wae, war, was, wat, and wet — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 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 waster 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.
waster 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 waster carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for waster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
waster is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rawest, tawers, waster, and waters, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waster 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 waster produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.