Hidden inside nearer sit earner, nearer, and reearn, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earner, nearer, and reearn tie for the highest Scrabble score from nearer at 6 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in nearer: two come from rearranging its letters, and nearer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nearer. For points, the strongest plays are earner, nearer, and reearn — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arene, ranee, and reran, 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 nearer produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are earn, erne, nare, near, rare, and rear — 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 nearer turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ane, are, ear, era, ere, ern, err, nae, nee, ran, and ree — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nearer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, and re — 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 nearer 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.
nearer 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 nearer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
nearer is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nearer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earner, nearer, and reearn, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nearer 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 nearer produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.