Hidden inside scares sit caress, carses, crases and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caress, carses, crases and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from scares at 8 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in scares: five come from rearranging its letters, and scares itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scares. For points, the strongest plays are caress, carses, crases, escars, scares, and seracs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases, races, scare, and scars. For points, the strongest plays are acres, cares, carse, cases, crass, cress, escar, races, scare, scars, and serac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scares produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, ears, eras, race, and scar. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, arcs, care, cars, case, cess, race, recs, sacs, scar, and secs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scares turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, car, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, car, rec, sac, and sec — each worth 5 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 scares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, er, es, 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.
31 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in scares plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scares 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.
scares 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 four senses for scares. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
scares is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caress, carses, crases, escars, scares, and seracs, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scares 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 scares produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.