Hidden inside ear sit are, ear, and era, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 3 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
are, ear, and era tie for the highest Scrabble score from ear at 3 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in ear: two come from rearranging its letters, and ear itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: are, ear, and era, worth 3 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ear. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, ar, er, 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.
60 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in ear plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ear and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
ear 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 ear carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for ear. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 3 points on a Scrabble board:
ear is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ear unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are are, ear, and era, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ear 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 ear produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.