Hidden inside ayer sit aery, eyra, yare and 1 other, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
AYER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AERY, EYRA, YARE and YEAR.
aery, eyra, yare and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ayer at 7 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in ayer produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with year. For points, the strongest plays are aery, eyra, yare, and year — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
27 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in ayer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ayer and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aery, eyra, yare, and year, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ayer 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 ayer produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.