Only in Collins.
ST is valid in the international Collins list used for crossword tile games outside North America, but not in the North American list.
ST is valid in the international Collins list but not in the NASPA Word List 2023, the North American list. If your group plays with the Collins toggle on, it counts; otherwise it can be challenged off the board.
About ST
ST is the sound used to stop or hush someone, much like SH. Collins players value it because it has no vowel at all.
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ST scores 2 points
Before any bonus squares: S 1 + T 1 = 2. On a double-word square that's 4, on a triple-word 6, and every letter bonus under one of these tiles is applied first.
Example: ST as the first play
Later in the game, put the S on a 3L square and ST is worth 4 before any word bonus.
Hooks: one tile makes a new word
Longer words from ST
Words that start with ST:
- STABuse a knife on
- STAGa male deer, especially an adult male red deer
- STAN
- STAR(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- STAT
- STAWform of STEAL: take without the owner's consent
- STAYstay the same
- STEM(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
Change one tile
Swap any one letter of ST and these are still words:
- ATin, on or near; also, to tag someone online
- ETate (a dialect past tense of eat)
- ITthe third person singular neuter pronoun
- UTthe musical tone C in the French solmization system now replaced by do
- SHused to urge silence
- SIti, the seventh note of the musical scale
- SOsol, the fifth note of the musical scale; also, in this way
Same letters, other words
Memory tip
ST is a sound to get someone's attention or ask for quiet. It is valid only in the Collins list, and it has no vowel at all.
On these lists
Other two-letter words starting with S
Check words at the table, free
Tileside keeps score, checks words like this one during a challenge, tracks the tiles left in the bag and times turns. It runs in your phone's browser with no account and works offline.
Tileside checks words against the North American list, the NASPA Word List 2023. Your group's chosen dictionary always wins. Playing the international (Collins) list? Turn on its 20 extra two-letter words in Setup.
Word list: NASPA Word List 2023, used under license. NASPA Word List 2023 Edition © NASPA 2023. The copy included in this app is licensed for personal use. You may not use it for any commercial purposes.
Works with the Scrabble board game, played at the table. Tileside is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of Scrabble.