Hidden inside queries sit esquire and queries, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble REQUESI, IUERQSE or QUSREEI and you get the same 7 letters as QUERIES: so the words from QUERIES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
esquire and queries tie for the highest Scrabble score from queries at 16 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in queries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and queries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are esquire and queries, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling queries turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are queers, quires, risque, and squire, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in queries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queer. For points, the strongest plays are eques, queer, and quire — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in queries produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rise and sure. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including rise, sure and ires.
Unscrambling queries turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see, sir, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
14 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in queries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in queries 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.
queries 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 two senses for queries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
queries is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing queries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are esquire and queries, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from queries 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 queries produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.