Hidden inside flares sit falser, farles, ferals and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
falser, farles, ferals and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from flares at 9 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in flares: three come from rearranging its letters, and flares itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falser. For points, the strongest plays are falser, farles, ferals, and flares — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with false, fears, laser, and safer. For points, the strongest plays are alefs, false, fares, farle, farls, fears, feral, flare, fleas, leafs, and safer — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in flares produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, fear, leaf, real, safe, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are alef, arfs, fare, farl, feal, fear, flea, frae, leaf, refs, safe, self, and serf — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling flares turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, elf, era, far, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are arf, efs, elf, far, fas, fer, fes, and ref — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 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 flares 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.
flares 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record fifteen senses for flares. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
flares is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing flares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are falser, farles, ferals, and flares, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from flares 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 flares produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.