Hidden inside austerer sit austerer and treasure, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
austerer and treasure tie for the highest Scrabble score from austerer at 8 points. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in austerer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and austerer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treasure. For points, the strongest plays are austerer and treasure — 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 austerer produces 6 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 austere, erasure, retears, serrate, tearers, and ureters, 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 austerer turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, arrest, easter, eaters, eraser, rarest, raster, rasure, raters, reseat, reseau, rester, retear, retuse, searer, seater, starer, tarres, tearer, teaser, terrae, terras, terser, urares, urates, urease, and ureter — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in austerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, stare, steer, surer, tears, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are arete, aster, aures, easer, eater, erase, ester, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, reest, resat, reset, reuse, ruers, saree, saute, serer, setae, stare, steer, stere, suete, surer, surra, sutra, tares, tarre, taser, tears, tease, teres, terra, terse, trees, truer, trues, turrs, urare, urase, urate, ureas, and ursae — 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 austerer produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rees, rest, rete, rets, ruer, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, star, suer, suet, sura, sure, tare, tars, tase, taus, tear, teas, tees, tree, tres, true, tsar, turr, urea, ursa, user, utas, and utes — 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 austerer turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, eau, era, ere, err, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, rue, rut, sae, sat, sau, sea, see, ser, set, sue, tae, tar, tas, tau, tea, tee, tes, use, uta, ute, and uts — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in austerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, te, us, and ut — 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 austerer 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.
austerer 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.
austerer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing austerer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are austerer and treasure, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from austerer 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 austerer produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.