Hidden inside roller sit reroll and roller, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reroll and roller tie for the highest Scrabble score from roller at 6 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in roller: one comes from rearranging its letters, and roller itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roller. For points, the strongest plays are reroll and roller — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in roller produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with role and roll. For points, the strongest plays are lore, orle, role, and roll — 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 roller 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 ell, err, lor, ole, ore, and roe, 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 roller. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, lo, oe, or, and re — 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 roller and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
roller 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 seven senses for roller. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
roller is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing roller unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reroll and roller, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from roller 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 roller produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.