Hidden inside rearlie sit earlier and learier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
REARLIE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EARLIER and LEARIER.
earlier and learier tie for the highest Scrabble score from rearlie at 7 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in rearlie produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earlier. For points, the strongest plays are earlier and learier — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rearlie turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aerier, irreal, railer and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rearlie. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aerie, airer, ariel, and laree, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rearlie produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liar, rare, and real. For points, 22 words tie at 4 points, including liar, rare and real.
Unscrambling rearlie turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ear. For points, 19 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and ear.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rearlie. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, ai, al and 6 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rearlie plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rearlie 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earlier and learier, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rearlie 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 rearlie produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.