Hidden inside allayer sit allayer and areally, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 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.
allayer and areally tie for the highest Scrabble score from allayer at 10 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in allayer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and allayer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allayer and areally, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, early, layer, and rally. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including alley, early and layer.
Rearranging the letters in allayer produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, real and rely. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including rely, year and yell.
Unscrambling allayer turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are and aye. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including aye, lay and ley.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in allayer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in allayer and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
allayer 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for allayer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
allayer is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allayer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allayer and areally, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from allayer 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 allayer produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.