Unscramble STEYS and you have 26 words, STEYS itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. STEYS has 2 anagrams here, STYES and YESTS, scoring 8 like STEYS itself. It has 5 letters, 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from STEYS split into 3 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 10 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Trade one tile of STEYS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with ST · ending in YS · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; STYES (8 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
STEYS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEYS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 26) | 18 | 26 | 14 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
8 of the 26 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: STEYS, YESTS, SEYS, SYES, YEST, SEY, SYE and ST. 4 of the 26 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ESTS, EST, TES and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of STEYS plus a single extra one.