herl and lehr tie for the highest Scrabble score from lehr 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 lehr: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lehr 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 lehr 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 lehr. 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 lehr 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.
lehr 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 lehr carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
lehr is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lehr 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 lehr 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 lehr 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.