Hidden inside hires sit heirs, hires, shier and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
heirs, hires, shier and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from hires at 8 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in hires: three come from rearranging its letters, and hires itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires and shier. For points, the strongest plays are heirs, hires, shier, and shire — 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 hires produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are heir, hers, hies, hire, resh, and shri — 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 hires turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, she, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are her, hes, hie, his, and she — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
29 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in hires plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hires and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
hires 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 five senses for hires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
hires is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are heirs, hires, shier, and shire, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hires 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 hires produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.