Hidden inside serials sit airless, resails, sailers and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
airless, resails, sailers and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from serials at 7 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in serials: four come from rearranging its letters, and serials 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 airless, resails, sailers, serails, and serials, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling serials turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, lasers, raises, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aisles, ariels, arises, lasers, lassie, liases, raises, rassle, resail, sailer, serail, serais, and serial — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, laser, liars, raise, rises, sails, and sales. For points, the strongest plays are aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arses, arsis, earls, isles, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lases, lassi, lears, liars, liers, liras, rails, raise, rales, rases, reais, reals, rials, riels, riles, rises, sails, sales, saris, seals, sears, serai, seral, sials, sires, sisal, and slier — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in serials produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, eras, less, liar, lies, and real. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, ales, ares, arie, aril, arse, earl, ears, eras, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lass, lear, leas, leis, less, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, rail, rais, rale, rase, real, reis, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, sail, sale, sals, sari, seal, sear, seas, seis, sels, sera, sers, sial, sire, sirs, and sris — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling serials turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ass, ear, era, lie, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ale, als, are, ars, ass, ear, els, era, ers, ess, ire, lar, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, rai, ras, rei, res, ria, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, ser, sir, sis, and sri — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, el, er, es, is, la, li, re, and si — 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 serials 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.
serials 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 six senses for serials. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
serials is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing serials unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airless, resails, sailers, serails, and serials, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from serials 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 serials produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.