Hidden inside planer sit planer and replan, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
planer and replan tie for the highest Scrabble score from planer at 8 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in planer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and planer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are planer and replan, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in planer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learn and plane. For points, the strongest plays are arpen, paler, panel, paren, parle, pearl, penal, plane, and plena — 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 planer produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, lane, lean, leap, near, plan, and real. For points, the strongest plays are aper, larp, leap, nape, neap, pale, pane, pare, peal, pean, pear, plan, plea, rape, and reap — 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 planer turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, lap, nap, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, lap, nap, pal, pan, par, pea, pen, per, rap, and rep — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in planer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 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 planer 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.
planer 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 3-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 planer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
planer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing planer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are planer and replan, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from planer 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 planer produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.