Hidden inside spears sit aspers, parses, passer and 5 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspers, parses, passer and 2 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from spears at 8 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 8 six-letter words hiding in spears: seven come from rearranging its letters, and spears itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spares. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, parses, passer, prases, repass, spares, sparse, and spears — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press and spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, asper, pares, parse, pases, passe, pears, prase, presa, press, rapes, rasps, reaps, spaes, spare, spars, and spear — 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 spears produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, pass, peas, raps, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pare, pars, pase, pass, pear, peas, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, saps, seps, spae, spar, and spas — 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 spears turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ass, ear, era, pea, and per. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, rap, rep, sap, and spa — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
38 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in spears plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in spears and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
spears 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 four senses for spears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
spears is one of eight six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspers, parses, passer, prases, repass, spares, sparse, and spears, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spears 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 spears produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 8 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.