Hidden inside assailer sit assailer, reassail, and salaries, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assailer, reassail, and salaries tie for the highest Scrabble score from assailer at 8 points. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in assailer: two come from rearranging its letters, and assailer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with salaries. For points, the strongest plays are assailer, reassail, and salaries — 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 assailer 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 aerials, airless, aliases, realias, resails, sailers, serails, and serials, 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 assailer turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, lasers, raises, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aerial, aisles, ariels, arises, assail, laaris, lasers, lassie, liases, raises, rassle, realia, resail, sailer, serail, serais, and serial — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, areas, laser, liars, raise, rises, and sails. For points, the strongest plays are aisle, alias, areal, areas, arias, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arses, arsis, assai, earls, isles, laari, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lases, lassi, lears, liars, liers, liras, raias, rails, raise, rales, rases, reais, reals, rials, riels, riles, rises, sails, sales, salsa, saris, seals, sears, serai, seral, sials, sires, sisal, and slier — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in assailer produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area, ears, eras, less, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are aals, ails, airs, alae, alar, alas, ales, area, ares, aria, arie, aril, arse, asea, earl, ears, eras, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lass, lear, leas, leis, less, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, raia, rail, rais, rale, rase, real, reis, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, sail, sale, sals, sari, seal, sear, seas, seis, sels, sera, sers, sial, sire, sirs, and sris — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling assailer turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ass, ear, era, lie, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are aal, aas, ail, air, ais, ala, ale, als, are, ars, ass, ear, els, era, ers, ess, ire, lar, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, rai, ras, rei, res, ria, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, ser, sir, sis, and sri — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, al, ar, as, el, er, es, is, la, li, re, and si — each worth 2 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 assailer 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.
assailer 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.
assailer is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assailer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assailer, reassail, and salaries, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assailer 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 assailer produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.