QUERY unscrambled

Q10U1E1R1Y4

These 5 tiles spell 9 words, the longest running 5 letters, including 1 anagram that uses every letter.

Full anagrams of QUERY

One word uses every one of your 5 tiles — the complete rearrangement most puzzles are asking for.

Longest first, alphabetical within each length. The small number is the word's tile score. Tap any word to unscramble it in turn.

Add a single blank and the same rack reaches 208 more words, up to 5 letters. Here are the longest of them.

2 vowels and 3 consonants — a balanced rack, which is where the longest words usually come from.

Face value of the full rack: 17 points.

The E: The most common letter in English and the most common in valid words. An E-heavy rack almost always spells something.
The Q: Almost always needs a U behind it. If there is no U in your tiles, the only common escapes are QI and QAT.
The Y: Doubles as a vowel. If your tiles are vowel-starved, Y is often the letter that rescues the rack.

Drop a tile and solve the rest. Each link runs the same search on the remaining letters.