Hidden inside carriers sit carriers and scarrier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carriers and scarrier tie for the highest Scrabble score from carriers at 10 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in carriers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and carriers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carriers and scarrier, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in carriers produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carries and scarier. For points, the strongest plays are carrier, carries, and scarier — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carriers turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carers, caries, cerias, criers, ericas, racers, racier, ricers, and scarer, 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 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carriers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cries, races, raise, rarer, rices, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are acres, areic, carer, cares, carrs, carse, ceria, cires, crias, crier, cries, erica, escar, racer, races, ricer, rices, saice, scare, and serac — 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 carriers produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, care, cars, case, ears, eras, and ices. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, arcs, asci, care, carr, cars, case, cire, cria, cris, ices, race, recs, rice, scar, and sice — 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 carriers turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, era, ice, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, car, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, and sic — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carriers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, and si — 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 carriers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
carriers 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 eleven senses for carriers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
carriers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carriers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carriers and scarrier, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carriers 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 carriers produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.