answerers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
answerers is the highest-scoring word from answerers, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in answerers — and it is answerers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answerers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are answerer and swearers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in answerers produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answers. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including answers, rawness and rewears.
Unscrambling answerers turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer, erases and nearer. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including answer, sewers and swears.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answerers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eases and erase. For points, 23 words tie at 8 points, including newer, rawer and sewer.
Rearranging the letters in answerers produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears and ease. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including news, sewn and sews.
Unscrambling answerers turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and ear. 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 answerers. 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.
Swap a single tile in answerers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
answerers 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 answerers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
answerers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing answerers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is answerers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from answerers 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 answerers produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.