Hidden inside aeries sit aeries and easier, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aeries and easier tie for the highest Scrabble score from aeries at 6 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in aeries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aeries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easier. For points, the strongest plays are aeries and easier — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aeries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase and raise. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including erase, raise and aerie.
Rearranging the letters in aeries produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears and ease. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including airs, ears and ease.
Unscrambling aeries turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ear. For points, 22 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and ear.
12 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in aeries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aeries and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
aeries is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in aeries carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
aeries is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aeries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aeries and easier, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aeries earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in aeries produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.