Hidden inside astir sit airts, astir, sitar and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
airts, astir, sitar and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from astir at 5 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words hiding in astir: five come from rearranging its letters, and astir itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stair. For points, the strongest plays are airts, astir, sitar, stair, stria, and tarsi — 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 astir produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, rats, star, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, arts, rais, rats, rias, sari, sati, star, stir, tars, and tsar — 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 astir turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, its, rat, sat, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, ait, ars, art, ats, its, rai, ras, rat, ria, sat, sir, sit, sri, tar, tas, and tis — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astir. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
42 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in astir plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in astir 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.
astir 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 astir carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for astir. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
astir is one of six five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astir unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airts, astir, sitar, stair, stria, and tarsi, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astir 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 astir produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.