Unscramble STEAR to get 83 words. STEAR itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 5 in Words With Friends. It has 12 anagrams at 5 points each, among them ARETS, ASTER and EARST. 31 shorter words score 4, among them RATE, EAST and STAR. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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By length, the words from STEAR split into 13 with 5 letters, 31 with 4, 27 with 3 and 12 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of STEAR, with one letter different:
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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
STEAR is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEAR itself | No | Yes | No |
| 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.
These 12 words take every letter of STEAR plus a single extra one.