Hidden inside ernie sit erne and rein, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
erne and rein tie for the highest Scrabble score from ernie at 4 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling ernie turns up 7 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ere, ern, ire, nee, ree, rei, and rin, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
24 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in ernie plus one additional letter.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are erne and rein, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ernie 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 ernie produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.