Hidden inside salter sit alerts, alters, artels and 8 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SARELT, ASLERT or REASTL and you get the same 6 letters as SALTER: so the words from SALTER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
alerts, alters, artels and 0 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from salter at 6 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 11 six-letter words hiding in salter: ten come from rearranging its letters, and salter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts and alters. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, alters and artels.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in salter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and laser. For points, 31 words tie at 5 points, including alert, alter and laser.
Rearranging the letters in salter produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 51 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and east.
Unscrambling salter turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 37 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
60 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in salter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in salter 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.
salter 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 1-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 salter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
salter is one of eleven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing salter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, ratels, salter, slater, staler, stelar, and talers, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from salter 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 salter produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 11 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.