Hidden inside skier sit keirs, kiers, siker and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
keirs, kiers, siker and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from skier at 9 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in skier: three come from rearranging its letters, and skier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are keirs, kiers, siker, and skier, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in skier produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rise and risk. For points, the strongest plays are irks, keir, kier, kirs, kris, risk, and sike — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling skier turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sir and ski. For points, the strongest plays are irk, kir, kis, and ski — each worth 7 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 skier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
31 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in skier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in skier 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.
skier 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in skier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for skier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
skier is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are keirs, kiers, siker, and skier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skier 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 skier produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.