Hidden inside reader sit dearer, reader, reared and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dearer, reader, reared and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reader at 7 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in reader: four come from rearranging its letters, and reader itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer. For points, the strongest plays are dearer, reader, reared, redear, and reread — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reader. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are darer, drear, eared, erred, and rared, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reader produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, deer, rare, and read. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dear, deer, dere, dree, read, rede, and reed — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reader turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dee, rad, and red — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in reader 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.
reader 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 reader carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eight senses for reader. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
reader is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reader unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dearer, reader, reared, redear, and reread, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reader 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 reader produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.