mazer needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mazer is the highest-scoring word from mazer, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in mazer — and it is mazer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mazer produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is maze, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mazer turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is rez — worth 12 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 mazer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 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 mazer and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
mazer 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 mazer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
mazer is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mazer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mazer, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mazer 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 mazer produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.