Hidden inside assure sit assure and urases, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assure and urases tie for the highest Scrabble score from assure at 6 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in assure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure. For points, the strongest plays are assure and urases — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assure. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arses, aures, rases, ruses, sears, suers, suras, urase, ureas, ursae, and users, 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 assure produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, seas, sues, sure, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, rues, ruse, sear, seas, sera, sers, suer, sues, sura, sure, urea, ursa, user, and uses — 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 assure turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, ear, era, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, ass, ear, eau, era, ers, ess, ras, res, rue, sae, sau, sea, ser, sue, sus, and use — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, er, es, re, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in assure plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assure 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.
assure 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 six senses for assure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
assure is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assure and urases, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assure 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 assure produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.