SURVEY unscrambled

S1U1R1V4E1Y4

These 6 tiles spell 29 words, the longest running 6 letters, including 1 anagram that uses every letter.

Full anagrams of SURVEY

One word uses every one of your 6 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 572 more words, up to 7 letters. Here are the longest of them.

2 vowels and 4 consonants — a balanced rack, which is where the longest words usually come from.

Face value of the full rack: 12 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 S: The most valuable tile for building long words — it pluralises almost anything, so it is usually worth saving for last.
The V: The awkward one — there is no valid two-letter word containing V, so it always needs at least two other tiles.
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.