Hidden inside reissues sit reissues and seisures, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reissues and seisures tie for the highest Scrabble score from reissues at 8 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in reissues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reissues itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reissues and seisures, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reissues produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are issuers, reissue, risuses, seisers, and seisure, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reissues turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issues and series. For points, the strongest plays are issuer, issues, reuses, seiser, seises, series, sieurs, and sirees — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reissues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue and rises. For points, the strongest plays are erses, esses, issue, reses, reuse, rises, risus, ruses, seers, seise, seres, sieur, siree, sires, sises, suers, suses, and users — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reissues produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rise, sees, sirs, sues, sure, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are eses, esse, ires, rees, reis, rise, rues, ruse, seer, sees, seis, sere, sers, sire, sirs, sris, suer, sues, sure, suss, user, and uses — 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 reissues turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see, sir, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ere, ers, ess, ire, ree, rei, res, rue, see, sei, ser, sir, sis, sri, sue, sus, and use — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reissues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, is, re, si, and us — 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 reissues and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
reissues 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 three senses for reissues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
reissues is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reissues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reissues and seisures, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reissues 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 reissues produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.