Hidden inside allures sit allures and laurels, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allures and laurels tie for the highest Scrabble score from allures at 7 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in allures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and allures 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 allures and laurels, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling allures turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allure, laurel, and saurel, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laser, lures, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are arles, aures, earls, lares, laser, lears, lures, rales, reals, rules, seral, sural, urase, ureal, ureas, and ursae — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in allures produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, lure, real, rule, sale, and seal. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alls, ares, arse, earl, ears, ells, eras, lars, lase, leal, lear, leas, lues, lure, rale, rase, real, rues, rule, ruse, sale, sall, saul, seal, sear, sell, sera, slue, slur, suer, sura, sure, urea, ursa, and user — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling allures turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, ear, era, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ale, all, als, are, ars, ear, eau, ell, els, era, ers, lar, las, lea, leu, ras, res, rue, sae, sal, sau, sea, sel, ser, sue, and use — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, re, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in allures 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.
allures 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for allures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
allures is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allures and laurels, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from allures 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 allures produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.