Hidden inside newsar sit answer and resawn, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
NEWSAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ANSWER and RESAWN.
answer and resawn tie for the highest Scrabble score from newsar at 9 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling newsar turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer. For points, the strongest plays are answer and resawn — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newsar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, saner and swear. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including swear, warns and wears.
Rearranging the letters in newsar produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears and eras. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including news, sewn and swan.
Unscrambling newsar turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and era. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including new, raw and saw.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newsar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
17 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in newsar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in newsar 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are answer and resawn, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from newsar 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 newsar produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.