Hidden inside trailers sit retrials and trailers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retrials and trailers tie for the highest Scrabble score from trailers at 8 points. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in trailers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trailers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trailers. For points, the strongest plays are retrials and trailers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in trailers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saltier and trailer. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including saltier, trailer and artsier.
Unscrambling trailers turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and arrest. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, alters and arrest.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alter. For points, 89 words tie at 5 points, including aisle, alert and alter.
Rearranging the letters in trailers produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 103 words tie at 4 points, including airs, arts and ears.
Unscrambling trailers turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 58 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and art.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in trailers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trailers 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.
trailers 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for trailers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
trailers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trailers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retrials and trailers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trailers 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 trailers produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.