answerer needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
answerer is the highest-scoring word from answerer, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in answerer — and it is answerer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in answerer produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rewears, swearer, warners and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling answerer turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer and nearer. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including answer, renews and resawn.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase and newer. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including newer, rawer and sewer.
Rearranging the letters in answerer produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears and ease. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including news, sewn and swan.
Unscrambling answerer turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and era. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including new, raw and saw.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in answerer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in answerer 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.
answerer 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 answerer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
answerer is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing answerer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is answerer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from answerer 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 answerer produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.