Unscramble ERICS and you have 38 words, ERICS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. It has 6 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: CIRES, CRIES, CRISE, ICERS, RICES and SERIC. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ERICS split into 7 with 5 letters, 13 with 4, 13 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of ERICS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with ER · ending in CS · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; CIRES, CRIES and RICES (7 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ERICS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERICS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 38) | 31 | 38 | 31 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 7 of them: CRISE, ERICS, ICERS, SERIC, ERIC, ICER and SEIR.
With one more tile, the letters of ERICS spell the words below.