Unscramble EARST to get 83 words. EARST itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 5 in Words With Friends. 12 anagrams of EARST are on the page, ARETS, ASTER and RATES included; each is 5 points. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Counting the words from EARST by length: 13 with 5 letters, 31 with 4, 27 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of EARST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with EA · ending in ST · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ASTER, RATES, RESAT, STARE, TARES, TASER and TEARS (5 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts EARST, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EARST itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 83) | 70 | 83 | 62 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
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.
These 12 words take every letter of EARST plus a single extra one.