Hidden inside serrature sit serrature and treasurer, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
serrature and treasurer tie for the highest Scrabble score from serrature at 9 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in serrature: one comes from rearranging its letters, and serrature itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are serrature and treasurer, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serrature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treasure. For points, the strongest plays are arrester, austerer, rearrest, and treasure — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in serrature produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are austere, erasure, rearers and 4 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling serrature turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, and rarest. For points, 28 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, easter and rarest.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serrature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rarer and rates. For points, 46 words tie at 5 points, including erase, rarer and rates.
Rearranging the letters in serrature produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and ease. For points, 55 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and ease.
Unscrambling serrature turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 40 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serrature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and us.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in serrature plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in serrature and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
serrature is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
serrature is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing serrature unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are serrature and treasurer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from serrature 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 serrature produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.