Hidden inside assailers sit assailers and reassails, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assailers and reassails tie for the highest Scrabble score from assailers at 9 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in assailers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assailers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assailers and reassails, 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 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assailers. 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 assailers produces 12 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, assails, lassies, rassles, realias, resails, sailers, sassier, 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 assailers turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, lasers, raises, salsas, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aerial, aisles, ariels, arises, assail, assais, laaris, lasers, lasses, lassie, lassis, liases, raises, rassle, realia, resail, sailer, salsas, serail, serais, serial, and sisals — 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, areas, asses, laser, liars, raise, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are aisle, alias, areal, areas, arias, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arses, arsis, assai, asses, 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, sises, 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 assailers produces 63 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, sass, 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 assailers 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 assailers. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in assailers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assailers 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.
assailers 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.
assailers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assailers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assailers and reassails, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assailers 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 assailers produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.