Hidden inside tearer sit retear, tearer, and terrae, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retear, tearer, and terrae tie for the highest Scrabble score from tearer at 6 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tearer: two come from rearranging its letters, and tearer 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 retear, tearer, and terrae, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tearer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arete, eater, rater, tarre, and terra, 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 tearer produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rare, rate, tear, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are rare, rate, rear, rete, tare, tear, and tree — 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 tearer turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, err, eta, rat, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, and tee — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tearer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
26 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tearer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tearer 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.
tearer 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 tearer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tearer is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tearer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retear, tearer, and terrae, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tearer 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 tearer produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.