Hidden inside carries sit carries and scarier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carries and scarier tie for the highest Scrabble score from carries at 9 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in carries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and carries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: carries and scarier, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carries 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cries, races, raise, 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 carries 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 carries 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 carries. 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 carries 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.
carries 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 forty-one senses for carries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
carries is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carries and scarier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carries 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 carries produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.