Hidden inside ailerons sit ailerons and alienors, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ailerons and alienors tie for the highest Scrabble score from ailerons at 8 points. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ailerons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ailerons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ailerons and alienors, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ailerons produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aileron, alienor, aliners and 7 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ailerons turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, learns and reason. For points, 51 words tie at 6 points, including aliens, learns and reason.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ailerons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and alone. For points, 114 words tie at 5 points, including aisle, alien and alone.
Rearranging the letters in ailerons produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and lane. For points, 128 words tie at 4 points, including airs, also and lane.
Unscrambling ailerons turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ear. For points, 64 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and ear.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ailerons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, 26 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and in.
15 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ailerons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ailerons 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.
ailerons 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ailerons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ailerons is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ailerons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ailerons and alienors, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ailerons 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 ailerons produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.