Hidden inside tailer sit retail, retial, and tailer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retail, retial, and tailer tie for the highest Scrabble score from tailer at 6 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tailer: two come from rearranging its letters, and tailer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retail, retial, and tailer, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, later, trail, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, ariel, artel, irate, later, liter, litre, ratel, relit, retia, taler, telia, terai, tiler, trail, and trial — 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 tailer produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, liar, rate, real, tail, tale, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are airt, alit, arie, aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, lear, liar, lier, lira, lire, lite, rail, rale, rate, real, rial, riel, rile, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, teal, tear, tela, tier, tile, tire, and tirl — 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 tailer turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ait, ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, ire, lar, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lit, rai, rat, rei, ret, ria, tae, tar, tea, tel, tie, and til — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, at, el, er, et, it, la, li, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
37 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tailer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tailer 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.
tailer 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.
tailer is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tailer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retail, retial, and tailer, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tailer 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 tailer produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.