Hidden inside mailer sit mailer and remail, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mailer and remail tie for the highest Scrabble score from mailer at 8 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in mailer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mailer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mailer and remail, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email and lamer. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, email, lamer, maile, miler, ramie, and realm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mailer produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, liar, mail, male, meal, mile, and real. For points, the strongest plays are alme, amie, amir, emir, lame, lima, lime, mail, mair, male, mare, marl, meal, merl, mile, mire, rami, ream, and rime — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mailer turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ear, era, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, elm, lam, mae, mar, mel, mil, mir, ram, rem, and rim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
27 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mailer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mailer 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.
mailer 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 four senses for mailer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
mailer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mailer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mailer and remail, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mailer 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 mailer produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.