Hidden inside wearer sit rewear and wearer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rewear and wearer tie for the highest Scrabble score from wearer at 9 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in wearer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wearer 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 rewear and wearer, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling wearer produces exactly one five-letter word: rawer. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wearer produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rare, wear, and were. For points, the strongest plays are awee, ewer, ware, wear, weer, and were — 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 wearer turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, raw, and war. For points, the strongest plays are awe, eew, ewe, raw, wae, war, and wee — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wearer. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: aw, ew, and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in wearer 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.
wearer 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 wearer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for wearer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
wearer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wearer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rewear and wearer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wearer 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 wearer produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.