Hidden inside easier sit aeries and easier, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aeries and easier tie for the highest Scrabble score from easier at 6 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in easier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and easier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easier. For points, the strongest plays are aeries and easier — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in easier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase and raise. For points, the strongest plays are aerie, arise, easer, erase, raise, reais, saree, serai, and siree — 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 easier produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, ease, eras, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are airs, ares, arie, arse, ears, ease, eras, ires, rais, rase, rees, reis, rias, rise, sari, sear, seer, sera, sere, and sire — 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 easier turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, sea, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, are, ars, ear, era, ere, ers, ire, rai, ras, ree, rei, res, ria, sae, sea, see, sei, ser, sir, and sri — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in easier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, and si — 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 easier and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
easier 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 easier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
easier is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing easier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aeries and easier, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from easier 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 easier produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.