Hidden inside raise sit arise, raise, reais and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arise, raise, reais and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from raise at 5 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in raise: three come from rearranging its letters, and raise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise. For points, the strongest plays are arise, raise, reais, and serai — 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 raise produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, eras, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are airs, ares, arie, arse, ears, eras, ires, rais, rase, reis, rias, rise, sari, sear, sera, and sire — 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 raise turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, sea, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, are, ars, ear, era, ers, ire, rai, ras, rei, res, ria, sae, sea, sei, ser, sir, and sri — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
49 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in raise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raise 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.
raise 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 raise carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record thirty-one senses for raise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
raise is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arise, raise, reais, and serai, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raise 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 raise produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.