Hidden inside erase sit easer, erase, and saree, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 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.
easer, erase, and saree tie for the highest Scrabble score from erase at 5 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in erase: two come from rearranging its letters, and erase itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase. For points, the strongest plays are easer, erase, and saree — 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 erase produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, ease, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, ears, ease, eras, rase, rees, sear, seer, sera, and sere — 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 erase turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, ear, era, ere, ers, ras, ree, res, sae, sea, see, and ser — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, er, es, and re — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
43 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in erase plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in erase 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.
erase 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 erase carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for erase. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
erase is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are easer, erase, and saree, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erase 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 erase produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.