herl and lehr tie for the highest Scrabble score from herl at 7 points. The top 8 of 8 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in herl: one comes from rearranging its letters, and herl itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are herl and lehr, 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 herl produces exactly one three-letter word: her. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in herl. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh and he, 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 herl and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
herl 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 herl carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
herl is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing herl unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are herl and lehr, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from herl 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 herl produce 8 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 1 three-letter word and 5 two-letter words.