Hidden inside dears sit dares, dears, rased and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dares, dears, rased and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dears at 6 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in dears: three come from rearranging its letters, and dears itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, and reads. For points, the strongest plays are dares, dears, rased, and reads — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dears produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, ears, eras, and read. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dear, rads, read, reds, sade, and sard — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dears turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ear, era, red, sad, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, eds, rad, red, and sad — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
60 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in dears plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dears 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.
dears 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in dears carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eight senses for dears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
dears is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dares, dears, rased, and reads, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dears 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 dears produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.