Hidden inside rearing sit angrier, earring, grainer and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
angrier, earring, grainer and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rearing at 8 points. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in rearing: four come from rearranging its letters, and rearing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier and earring. For points, the strongest plays are angrier, earring, grainer, rangier, and rearing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rearing turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earing, erring, gainer, garner, ranger, raring, reagin, regain, regina, and ringer, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger and range. For points, the strongest plays are anger, garni, gnarr, grain, rager, range, regna, reign, renig, and rerig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rearing produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, near, rage, rain, rang, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are ager, agin, areg, gaen, gain, gane, gean, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, rage, ragi, rang, and ring — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rearing turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, nag, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, grr, nag, neg, rag, reg, and rig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 rearing 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.
rearing 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for rearing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
rearing is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rearing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are angrier, earring, grainer, rangier, and rearing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rearing 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 rearing produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.