Hidden inside erasing sit earings, erasing, gainers and 5 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earings, erasing, gainers and 2 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from erasing at 8 points. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 8 seven-letter words hiding in erasing: seven come from rearranging its letters, and erasing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing. For points, the strongest plays are earings, erasing, gainers, reagins, regains, reginas, searing, and seringa — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling erasing turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, easing, ranges, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are angers, earing, easing, gainer, grains, ranges, rasing, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, resign, sagier, sanger, sering, signer, and singer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns, gains, rages, rains, raise, and range. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, anger, gains, garni, geans, gears, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grins, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, and singe — 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 erasing produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, earn, ears, eras, gain, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, gars, gean, gear, gens, gien, gies, gins, girn, gnar, gran, grin, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, and snag — 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 erasing turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, gas, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gen, gie, gin, gis, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, and sig — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
52 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in erasing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in erasing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
erasing 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.
erasing is one of eight seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erasing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earings, erasing, gainers, reagins, regains, reginas, searing, and seringa, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erasing 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 erasing produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 8 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.