83 words come out when you unscramble ASTER, starting with ASTER itself: 5 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. It has 12 anagrams at 5 points each, among them ARETS, EARST and RATES. The best shorter words score 4: 31 of them, RATE, EAST and STAR included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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By length, the words from ASTER split into 13 with 5 letters, 31 with 4, 27 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Trade one tile of ASTER for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with AS · ending in ER · all 5-letter words
ASTER first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. ASTER is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASTER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 83) | 70 | 83 | 62 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
13 of the 83 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ARETS, EARST, REAST, STEAR, STRAE, TERAS, ARET, RAST, TAES, EAS, SAR, EA and 1 more. 8 of the 83 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: RESAT, TASER, TASE, TRES, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of ASTER spell the words below.