Hidden inside queries sit esquire and queries, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
esquire and queries tie for the highest Scrabble score from queries at 16 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in queries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and queries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are esquire and queries, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling queries turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are queers, quires, risque, and squire, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in queries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queer. For points, the strongest plays are eques, queer, and quire — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in queries produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rise and sure. For points, the strongest plays are ires, rees, reis, rise, rues, ruse, seer, sere, sire, suer, sure, and user — 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 queries turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see, sir, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in queries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 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 queries 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.
queries 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 two senses for queries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
queries is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing queries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are esquire and queries, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from queries 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 queries produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.