Hidden inside leases sit easels and leases, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
easels and leases tie for the highest Scrabble score from leases at 6 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in leases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leases. For points, the strongest plays are easels and leases — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, lease, sales, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are easel, eases, lases, lease, sales, seals, and seels — 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 leases produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, else, less, sale, seal, seas, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are alee, ales, ease, eels, else, eses, esse, lase, lass, leas, lees, less, sale, sals, seal, seas, seel, sees, and sels — 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 leases turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, ass, eel, els, ess, las, lea, lee, sae, sal, sea, see, and sel — 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 leases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, el, es, and la — 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 leases 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.
leases 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 seven senses for leases. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
leases is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are easels and leases, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leases 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 leases produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.