Hidden inside sarkier sit kerrias and sarkier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kerrias and sarkier tie for the highest Scrabble score from sarkier at 11 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sarkier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sarkier 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 kerrias and sarkier, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sarkier turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kaiser, karris, kerria and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sarkier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including asker, eskar and karri.
Rearranging the letters in sarkier produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears and eras. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including risk, sake and arks.
Unscrambling sarkier turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ask. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ski and ark.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sarkier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sarkier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sarkier 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.
sarkier 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 sarkier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
sarkier is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sarkier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kerrias and sarkier, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sarkier 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 sarkier produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.