inquires needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inquires is the highest-scoring word from inquires, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in inquires — and it is inquires itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in inquires produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inquire and requins, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling inquires turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are querns, quires, requin and 3 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inquires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nurse, risen and ruins. For points, the strongest plays are quern, quins, and quire — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in inquires produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rise, ruin, runs, and sure. For points, the strongest play is quin — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling inquires turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with run, sin and sir. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inquires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in inquires plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in inquires and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
inquires 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for inquires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
inquires is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inquires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is inquires, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from inquires 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 inquires produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.