17 words come out when you unscramble LIRA, starting with LIRA itself: 4 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. It has 6 anagrams, each with the same 4 points: ARIL, LAIR, LARI, LIAR, RAIL and RIAL. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 3 points, AIR, AIL and LAR among them. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from LIRA by length: 7 with 4 letters, 5 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of LIRA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with LI · ending in RA · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to LIRA:
LIRA first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
LIRA works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIRA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 17 | 17 | 16 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Words With Friends*: RAI.
These 12 words take every letter of LIRA plus a single extra one.