Hidden inside agentries sit agentries, gratinees, reseating and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 705 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agentries, gratinees, reseating and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from agentries at 10 points. The top 10 of 705 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in agentries: three come from rearranging its letters, and agentries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agentries, gratinees, reseating, and stingaree, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agentries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, sergeant, and steering. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including angriest, sergeant and steering.
Rearranging the letters in agentries produces 72 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, entries and erasing. For points, 49 words tie at 8 points, including erasing, ratings and resting.
Unscrambling agentries turns up 144 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees and angers. For points, 78 words tie at 7 points, including agents, agrees and angers.
There are 188 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agentries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree and anger. For points, 78 words tie at 6 points, including agent, agree and anger.
Rearranging the letters in agentries produces 159 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and ants. For points, 62 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gain and gate.
Unscrambling agentries turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, 26 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and gee.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agentries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
12 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in agentries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in agentries and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
agentries 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.
agentries is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing agentries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agentries, gratinees, reseating, and stingaree, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from agentries 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 agentries produce 705 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 28 eight-letter words, 72 seven-letter words, 144 six-letter words, 188 five-letter words, 159 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.