Hidden inside shearer sit hearers, rehears, and shearer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hearers, rehears, and shearer tie for the highest Scrabble score from shearer at 10 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in shearer: two come from rearranging its letters, and shearer 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 hearers, rehears, and shearer, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shearer turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haeres, hearer, hearse, rasher, rehear, and sharer, each worth 9 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 shearer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, hears, and share. For points, the strongest plays are hares, hears, heres, rheas, share, shear, and sheer — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shearer produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, ease, eras, hear, here, hers, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are haes, hare, hear, here, hers, rash, resh, rhea, and shea — 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 shearer turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, ear, era, has, her, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hae, has, her, hes, rah, sha, and she — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shearer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 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 shearer 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.
shearer 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 shearer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
shearer is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shearer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hearers, rehears, and shearer, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shearer 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 shearer produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.