Hidden inside phasers sit phasers, phrases, seraphs and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
phasers, phrases, seraphs and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from phasers at 12 points. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in phasers: four come from rearranging its letters, and phasers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phrases. For points, the strongest plays are phasers, phrases, seraphs, shapers, and sherpas — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling phasers turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases, phrase, rashes, shapes, shares, and spares. For points, the strongest plays are pashes, phaser, phases, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, shapes, sharps, and sherpa — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in phasers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, hears, phase, press, shape, share, and sharp. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, harps, hasps, heaps, phase, raphe, shape, and sharp — 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 phasers produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, hear, hers, pass, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, harp, hasp, heap, heps, pash, and pehs — 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 phasers turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ash, ass, ear, era, and has. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in phasers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 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 phasers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
phasers is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
phasers is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing phasers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are phasers, phrases, seraphs, shapers, and sherpas, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from phasers 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 phasers produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.