assures needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SUSSARE, RASSUES or AEUSSRS and you get the same 7 letters as ASSURES: so the words from ASSURES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
assures is the highest-scoring word from assures, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in assures — and it is assures itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including asses, arses and aures.
Rearranging the letters in assures produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras and seas. For points, 21 words tie at 4 points, including ears, eras and seas.
Unscrambling assures turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and ear. For points, 18 words tie at 3 points, including are, ass and ear.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in assures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assures 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.
assures 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 assures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
assures is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is assures, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from assures 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 assures produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.