Unscramble SIERRAS and you have 107 words, SIERRAS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: ARRISES and RAISERS. Among the shorter answers, 12 reach 6 points, SIERRA, RAISES and ARISES among them. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. SIERRAS as a single 7-tile play makes 57 in Scrabble, 7 plus the 50 bonus, and 42 in Words With Friends (7 + 35).
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Counting the words from SIERRAS by length: 3 with 7 letters, 12 with 6, 25 with 5, 31 with 4, 26 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of SIERRAS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with SI · ending in AS · all 7-letter words
SIERRAS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SIERRAS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIERRAS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 107) | 86 | 107 | 82 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
21 of the 107 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ARSIER, SAIRER, SERRAS, AESIR, RASSE, SAIRS, SASER, SEIRS, SERRA, SERRS, ARIS, SAIR and 9 more. 4 of the 107 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: REAIS, ARIE, RAIS and RAI.
These 12 words take every letter of SIERRAS plus a single extra one.