Hidden inside trailers sit retrials and trailers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retrials and trailers tie for the highest Scrabble score from trailers at 8 points. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in trailers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trailers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trailers. For points, the strongest plays are retrials and trailers — 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 trailers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saltier and trailer. For points, the strongest plays are artsier, railers, realist, retails, retrial, saltier, saltire, slatier, tailers, tarries, tarsier, and trailer — 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 trailers turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, arrest, rarest, serial, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are airers, airest, alerts, alters, ariels, arrest, artels, artier, artsie, estral, irater, irreal, laster, lister, liters, litres, railer, raiser, rarest, raster, ratels, raters, relist, resail, retail, retial, retral, ristra, sailer, salter, saltie, satire, serail, serial, sierra, slater, staler, starer, stelai, stelar, striae, tailer, talers, tarres, terais, terras, tilers, trails, trials, and triers — 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 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, laser, later, least, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are airer, airts, aisle, alert, alist, alter, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arris, artel, aster, astir, earls, irate, islet, istle, lairs, lares, laris, laser, later, lears, least, liars, liers, liras, litas, liter, lites, litre, rails, raise, rales, rares, raser, ratel, rater, rates, reais, reals, rears, relit, resat, resit, retia, rials, riels, riles, riser, rites, serai, seral, setal, sirra, sitar, slate, slier, stair, stale, stare, steal, stela, stile, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tares, tarre, tarsi, taser, teals, tears, telia, terai, terra, tesla, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, trail, trial, trier, and tries — 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 trailers produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and last. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, airt, aits, ales, alit, alts, ares, arie, aril, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lear, leas, leis, lest, lets, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, list, lite, lits, rail, rais, rale, rare, rase, rate, rats, real, rear, reis, rest, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, rite, sail, sale, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seat, sera, seta, sial, silt, sire, site, slat, slit, star, stir, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, tars, tase, teal, tear, teas, tela, tels, tier, ties, tile, tils, tire, tirl, tres, and tsar — 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 trailers turns up 58 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, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, els, era, err, ers, est, eta, ire, its, lar, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, rai, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tea, tel, tes, tie, til, and tis — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, 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.
Swap a single tile in trailers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
trailers 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 trailers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
trailers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trailers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retrials and trailers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trailers 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 trailers produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.