Hidden inside agists sit agists and staigs, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agists and staigs tie for the highest Scrabble score from agists at 7 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in agists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and agists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agists and staigs, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agists. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agist, gaits, gasts, gists, stags, and staig, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in agists produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sits and tags. For points, the strongest plays are gait, gast, gats, gist, gits, sags, sigs, stag, and tags — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling agists turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, gas, its, sat, sit, and tag. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gas, gat, gis, git, sag, sig, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each 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 agists and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
agists 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
agists is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing agists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agists and staigs, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from agists 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 agists produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.