Hidden inside verier sit reiver, riever, and verier, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reiver, riever, and verier tie for the highest Scrabble score from verier at 9 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in verier: two come from rearranging its letters, and verier 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 reiver, riever, and verier, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verier. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er and re, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
15 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in verier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in verier 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.
verier 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.
verier is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reiver, riever, and verier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from verier 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 verier produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.