Unscramble SEIRS and you have 28 words, SEIRS itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: RISES and SIRES. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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By length, the words from SEIRS split into 3 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 10 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of SEIRS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SE · ending in RS · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; RISES and SIRES (5 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
SEIRS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEIRS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 28) | 25 | 28 | 25 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 3 of them: SEIRS, SEIR and SIES.
These 12 words take every letter of SEIRS plus a single extra one.