Hidden inside ashlar sit ashlar and lahars, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ashlar and lahars tie for the highest Scrabble score from ashlar at 9 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ashlar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ashlar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ashlar and lahars, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ashlar. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haars, harls, and lahar, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ashlar produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rash. For points, the strongest plays are aahs, haar, harl, lahs, lash, and rash — 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 ashlar turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, ash, and has. For points, the strongest plays are aah, aha, ahs, ash, has, lah, rah, and sha — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ashlar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ha, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, and sh — each worth 5 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 ashlar and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ashlar 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 ashlar carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ashlar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ashlar is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ashlar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ashlar and lahars, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ashlar 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 ashlar produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.