Hidden inside blare sit abler, baler, blare and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abler, baler, blare and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from blare at 7 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in blare: three come from rearranging its letters, and blare itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler. For points, the strongest plays are abler, baler, blare, and blear — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blare produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare, bear, and real. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including able, bare and bear.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blare. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
34 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in blare plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blare and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
blare 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for blare. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
blare is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blare unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abler, baler, blare, and blear, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blare 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 blare produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.