Unscramble LARE and you have 21 words, LARE itself among them: it scores 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. It has 6 anagrams, each with the same 4 points: ARLE, EARL, LAER, LEAR, RALE and REAL. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from LARE split into 7 with 4 letters, 6 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of LARE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with LA · ending in RE · all 4-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by EARL, LEAR, RALE and REAL (4 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts LARE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 21) | 17 | 21 | 17 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 4 of them: ARLE, LAER, LARE and EA.
With one more tile, the letters of LARE spell the words below.