Hidden inside lasers sit lasers and rassle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lasers and rassle tie for the highest Scrabble score from lasers at 6 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lasers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lasers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasers. For points, the strongest plays are lasers and rassle — 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lasers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laser, sales, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are arles, arses, earls, lares, laser, lases, lears, rales, rases, reals, sales, seals, sears, and seral — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lasers produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, less, real, sale, seal, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are ales, ares, arse, earl, ears, eras, lars, lase, lass, lear, leas, less, rale, rase, real, sale, sals, seal, sear, seas, sels, sera, and sers — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lasers turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, are, ars, ass, ear, els, era, ers, ess, lar, las, lea, ras, res, sae, sal, sea, sel, and ser — each worth 3 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 lasers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, and re — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
44 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lasers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lasers 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.
lasers 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 one sense for lasers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
lasers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lasers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lasers and rassle, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lasers 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 lasers produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.