Hidden inside acreages sit acreages and gearcase, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
acreages and gearcase tie for the highest Scrabble score from acreages at 11 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in acreages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and acreages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acreages and gearcase, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling acreages produces exactly one seven-letter word: acreage. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling acreages turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, graces, and grease. For points, the strongest plays are cagers and graces — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in acreages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, areas, cages, cares, cease, erase, and grace. For points, the strongest plays are cager, cages, crags, grace, and scrag — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in acreages produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, area, cage, care, cars, case, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are cage, crag, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling acreages turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, car, ear, era, gas, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, car, cee, rec, sac, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in acreages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in acreages and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
acreages is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for acreages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
acreages is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing acreages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are acreages and gearcase, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from acreages earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in acreages produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.