Hidden inside aigrets sit aigrets, gaiters, seagirt and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aigrets, gaiters, seagirt and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from aigrets at 8 points. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in aigrets: four come from rearranging its letters, and aigrets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aigrets, gaiters, seagirt, stagier, and triages, 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 aigrets turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tigers. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, aigret, gaiter, gaster, gaters, grates, gratis, greats, retags, sagier, stager, targes, tigers, and triage — 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 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aigrets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, great, rages, raise, rates, stage, and stair. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agist, gaits, gater, gates, gears, getas, girts, gites, grate, great, grist, grits, rages, ragis, retag, sager, sarge, stage, staig, targe, terga, tiger, tragi, and trigs — 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 aigrets produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, egis, ergs, gaes, gait, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gest, geta, gets, gies, girt, gist, gite, gits, grat, grit, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, sage, stag, tags, tegs, and trig — 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 aigrets turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, gat, get, gie, gis, git, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aigrets. 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.
21 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in aigrets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aigrets and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
aigrets 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for aigrets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
aigrets is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aigrets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aigrets, gaiters, seagirt, stagier, and triages, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aigrets 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 aigrets produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.