Unscramble SKEERIER and you have 87 words, SKEERIER itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Counting the words from SKEERIER by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 10 with 6, 16 with 5, 29 with 4, 21 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Of the 29 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SKEERIER, 18 score 8 points, the group's best. RISK, RISE and SEEK are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SKEERIER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SK · ending in ER · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with KERRIES, REEKERS and REEKIER (11 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SKEERIER 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKEERIER itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 87) | 65 | 87 | 62 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
22 of the 87 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SKEERIER, KREESE, REEKIE, SEIKER, REIKS, REKES, SKEER, EIKS, ERKS, REIK, REKE, SEIK and 10 more. 3 of the 87 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: EEK, KIS and KI.