Hidden inside saurian sit anurias, saurian, and uranias, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anurias, saurian, and uranias tie for the highest Scrabble score from saurian at 7 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in saurian: two come from rearranging its letters, and saurian 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 anurias, saurian, and uranias, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling saurian turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anuria, nairas, nairus and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saurian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rains and ruins. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including rains, ruins and airns.
Rearranging the letters in saurian produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, anus and rain. For points, 24 words tie at 4 points, including airs, anus and rain.
Unscrambling saurian turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ran and run. For points, 24 words tie at 3 points, including air, ran and run.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saurian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and in.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in saurian plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in saurian 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.
saurian 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 two senses for saurian. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
saurian is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saurian unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anurias, saurian, and uranias, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saurian 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 saurian produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.