Hidden inside require sit querier and require, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
querier and require tie for the highest Scrabble score from require at 16 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in require: one comes from rearranging its letters, and require itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with require. For points, the strongest plays are querier and require — 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.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in require. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queer. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Unscrambling require produces exactly one four-letter word: ruer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling require turns up 6 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ere, err, ire, ree, rei, and rue, 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in require. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word 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 require 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.
require 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 four senses for require. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
require is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing require unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are querier and require, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from require 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 require produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 6 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.