Hidden inside scars sit crass and scars, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crass and scars tie for the highest Scrabble score from scars at 7 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in scars: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scars itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scars. For points, the strongest plays are crass and scars — 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 scars produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cars and scar. For points, the strongest plays are arcs, cars, sacs, and scar — 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 scars turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and car. For points, the strongest plays are arc, car, and sac — 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 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ar and as — 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 scars and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
scars 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 three senses for scars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
scars is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crass and scars, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scars 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 scars produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.