Hidden inside ria sit air, rai, and ria, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 3 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
air, rai, and ria tie for the highest Scrabble score from ria at 3 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in ria: two come from rearranging its letters, and ria itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air. For points, the strongest plays are air, rai, and ria — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
37 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in ria plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ria and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
ria 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in ria carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ria is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ria unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are air, rai, and ria, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ria 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 ria produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.