Unscramble STERILISES to get 249 words. STERILISES itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. 10 letters: 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from STERILISES by length: 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 7 with 8, 23 with 7, 49 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 35 with 3 and 13 with 2.
There is a single one of the 9-letter words made with STERILISES letters: STERILISE, 9 points.
The 7-letter words you get when you unscramble STERILISES come to 23, each scoring 7 points. SISTERS, STERILE and LISTERS are the familiar ones.
Every one of the 49 6-letter words from STERILISES scores 6. SERIES, STRESS and SISTER are everyday picks.
All 60 of the 5-letter words from STERILISES score 5 points. SITES, LISTS and STEEL are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 4-letter words in STERILISES scores 4. LIST, LESS and REST are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of STERILISES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 10-letter words: starting with ST · ending in ES · all 10-letter words
What STERILISES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
STERILISES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STERILISES itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 249) | 196 | 248 | 185 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: RITELESS, STIRLESS, TILERIES, RILIEST, SEITIES, SESELIS, EISELS, ESILES, LESSES, LISSES, REISES, REISTS and 40 more, 52 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: STERILISES, STERILISE, RESITS, LITES, RESES, RESIT, ESSE, ESTS, EST, TES and TE, 11 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of STERILISES spell the words below.