Hidden inside erases sit easers, erases, and sarees, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
easers, erases, and sarees tie for the highest Scrabble score from erases at 6 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in erases: two come from rearranging its letters, and erases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erases. For points, the strongest plays are easers, erases, and sarees — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases and erase. For points, the strongest plays are arses, easer, eases, erase, erses, rases, reses, saree, sears, seers, and seres — 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 erases produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, ease, eras, seas, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, ears, ease, eras, eses, esse, rase, rees, sear, seas, seer, sees, sera, sere, and sers — 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 erases turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, ear, era, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, ass, ear, era, ere, ers, ess, ras, ree, res, sae, sea, see, and ser — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, er, es, and re — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in erases plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in erases 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.
erases 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 erases carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for erases. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
erases is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are easers, erases, and sarees, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erases 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 erases produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.