Hidden inside alterers sit alterers, realters, and relaters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alterers, realters, and relaters tie for the highest Scrabble score from alterers at 8 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in alterers: two come from rearranging its letters, and alterers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alterers, realters, and relaters, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alterers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relates. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including relates, alerter and alterer.
Unscrambling alterers turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and arrest. For points, 46 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, alters and arrest.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and erase. For points, 67 words tie at 5 points, including alert, alter and erase.
Rearranging the letters in alterers produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and ease. For points, 71 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and ease.
Unscrambling alterers turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 44 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and ae.
11 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in alterers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alterers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
alterers 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.
alterers is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alterers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alterers, realters, and relaters, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alterers 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 alterers produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.