Hidden inside hailer sit hailer and halier, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hailer and halier tie for the highest Scrabble score from hailer at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hailer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hailer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hailer and halier, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hailer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haler and hilar, 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 hailer produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hail, hair, heal, hear, hire, liar, and real. For points, the strongest plays are elhi, hail, hair, hale, hare, harl, heal, hear, heil, heir, herl, hila, hire, lehr, and rhea — 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 hailer turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, her, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are ahi, hae, her, hie, lah, and rah — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hailer. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ah, eh, ha, he, and hi, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in hailer 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.
hailer 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 hailer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hailer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hailer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hailer and halier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hailer 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 hailer produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.