83 words come out when you unscramble TEARS, starting with TEARS itself: 5 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. TEARS has 12 anagrams here, ARETS, ASTER and EARST among them, all scoring 5 like TEARS itself. Among the shorter answers, 31 reach 4 points, RATE, EAST and STAR among them. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Counting the words from TEARS by length: 13 with 5 letters, 31 with 4, 27 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of TEARS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with TE · ending in RS · all 5-letter words
TEARS 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 TEARS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEARS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 83) | 70 | 83 | 62 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 13 of them: ARETS, EARST, REAST, STEAR, STRAE, TERAS, ARET, RAST, TAES, EAS, SAR, EA and 1 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: RESAT, TASER, TASE, TRES, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of TEARS plus a single extra one.