Words From A D E I R R S
There are 180 words from A D E I R R S. The highest scoring in Scrabble is ARRIDES at 8 points, ahead of RAIDERS at 8. Most are 4 letters long, 53 of the 180.
The Answer
2 words use all 7 letters: RAIDERS, ARRIDES. They are anagrams of each other, so any of them plays the whole rack. Laying all 7 tiles down in one turn is a bingo, so that play is worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
These letters are 3 vowels and 4 consonants, and it holds an S, the single most useful tile on the board because it hooks onto a word already in play. R appears twice, which cuts the number of distinct words a rack of this size usually makes.
Highest Scoring Plays
The rack itself is worth 8 points in Scrabble (A1 D2 E1 I1 R1 R1 S1). The best single word from it is RAIDERS at 8. RAIDERS is also the best in Words With Friends, at 8.
6 Letter Words (26)
Best of them is SIRRED at 7 points.
5 Letter Words (44)
Best of them is SIRED at 6 points.
4 Letter Words (53)
Best of them is SIDE at 5 points. This is the deepest group on the rack, 53 of the 180 words here.
3 Letter Words (39)
Best of them is SED at 4 points.
Racks One Letter Away
Six of these seven letters, plus one different one.
The Same Letters, By Tool
These tiles answered as each tool would put it: Anagram Solver, Scrabble Word Finder, Words With Friends, Wordfeud. Any order of the letters works too, so /unscramble/raiders reaches this same page.
Different letters? The Word Unscrambler solves any rack, or try the Anagram Solver for letters that have to be used in full. Every rack with its own page is listed in the index.