Hidden inside letterers sit letterers and reletters, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
letterers and reletters tie for the highest Scrabble score from letterers at 9 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in letterers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and letterers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are letterers and reletters, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in letterers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are letterer, reletter, resetter, and resettle, 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 letterers produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letters. For points, the strongest plays are letters, reelers, settler, steerer, sterlet, teeters, teretes, terrets, and trestle — 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 letterers turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letter, settle, and street. For points, the strongest plays are letter, reeler, relets, rester, retest, settee, setter, settle, streel, street, teeter, terete, terret, terser, testee, and tester — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in letterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steel, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are ester, leers, leets, reels, reest, relet, resee, reset, serer, sleet, steel, steer, stele, stere, teels, teles, teres, terse, trees, and trets — 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 letterers produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets, rest, test, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eels, else, errs, erst, leer, lees, leet, lest, lets, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, seel, seer, sere, sett, stet, teel, tees, tele, tels, test, tets, tree, tres, and tret — 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 letterers turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eel, els, ere, err, ers, est, lee, let, ree, res, ret, see, sel, ser, set, tee, tel, tes, and tet — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in letterers. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, er, es, et, re, and te, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in letterers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
letterers 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 letterers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
letterers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing letterers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are letterers and reletters, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from letterers 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 letterers produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.