Hidden inside aglimmer sit aglimmer and glammier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aglimmer and glammier tie for the highest Scrabble score from aglimmer at 13 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in aglimmer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aglimmer 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 aglimmer and glammier, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aglimmer produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gammier, glammer, and glimmer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aglimmer turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gammer, gimmal, gramme, and megrim, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aglimmer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email, image, lamer, and large. For points, the strongest plays are gemma and gimme — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aglimmer produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, germ, girl, lame, liar, mail, and male. For points, the strongest plays are imam, maim, malm, and mime — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aglimmer turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are mam, mem, and mim — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aglimmer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 aglimmer 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.
aglimmer 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
aglimmer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aglimmer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aglimmer and glammier, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aglimmer 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 aglimmer produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.