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Anagrams of BARES

6 words use exactly A B E R S

  • Common 5
  • bares7
  • baser7
  • bears7
  • saber7
  • sabre7
  • Less common 1
  • braes7

Every word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list) made of exactly these 5 letters, slurs removed, common words first. 5 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade); BRAES is less common. Each scores 7 points at face value. It is number 10 of the 10 groups with the most common anagrams, out of 830 groups that qualify.

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The page is named BARES because the rule names each group after its most common member, and BARES ties with BASER, BEARS, SABER and SABRE on the commonness grade, so the tie goes A to Z. Every word here has this one page; none gets a page of its own.

42 shorter words from A B E R S The same list the solver gives for BARES: every word of 2 to 4 letters these tiles make, each letter used at most as often as it appears. Longest first; common words first in each length, A to Z inside each grade. The longest are 4 letters. The top scorer is ARBS at 6 points.

4 letters 16 words

  • Common 10
  • ares4
  • arse4
  • bare6
  • bars6
  • base6
  • bear6
  • bras6
  • ears4
  • eras4
  • sear4
  • Less common 2
  • arbs6
  • brae6
  • Rare 4
  • rase4
  • rebs6
  • sabe6
  • sera4

3 letters 17 words

  • Common 6
  • are3
  • bar5
  • bra5
  • ear3
  • era3
  • sea3
  • Less common 1
  • arb5
  • Rare 10
  • abs5
  • ars3
  • bas5
  • ers3
  • ras3
  • reb5
  • res3
  • sab5
  • sae3
  • ser3

2 letters 9 words

  • Common 3
  • as2
  • be4
  • re2
  • Everyday 1
  • es2
  • Less common 1
  • er2
  • Rare 4
  • ab4
  • ae2
  • ar2
  • ba4