Hidden inside prayers sit prayers, respray, and sprayer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SPRYERA, SARPREY or PRARSEY and you get the same 7 letters as PRAYERS: so the words from PRAYERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
prayers, respray, and sprayer tie for the highest Scrabble score from prayers at 12 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in prayers: two come from rearranging its letters, and prayers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prayers. For points, the strongest plays are prayers, respray, and sprayer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prayers turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prayer and sparer. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including prayer, payers and pryers.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prayers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prays, spare, spray, and years. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including prays, spray and apery.
Rearranging the letters in prayers produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and easy. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including pays, pray and espy.
Unscrambling prayers turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and aye. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including pay, spy and yep.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prayers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in prayers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in prayers 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.
prayers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in prayers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for prayers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
prayers is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prayers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prayers, respray, and sprayer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prayers 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 prayers produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.