Unscramble DREARIER and you have 105 words, DREARIER itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
D2R1E1A1R1I1E1R1
Counting the words from DREARIER by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 14 with 6, 27 with 5, 26 with 4, 21 with 3 and 13 with 2.
22 of 27 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DREARIER tie at 6 points; none scores more. RIDER, AIRED and ERRED will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DREARIER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DR · ending in ER · all 8-letter words
The meaning of DREARIER, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DREARIER, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DREARIER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 105) | 78 | 105 | 74 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ARRIDE, ARRIERE, DREARE, ARDRI, AREDE, DARRE, DEARE, DREER, DRERE, RAIRD, REIRD, ARED and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DREARER, ARIE, DA and RAI, 4 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of DREARIER spell the words below.