Hidden inside assigners sit assigners and reassigns, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assigners and reassigns tie for the highest Scrabble score from assigners at 10 points. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in assigners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assigners 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 assigners and reassigns, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assigners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assigner, reassign, and seringas, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in assigners produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assigns, erasing, grasses, and singers. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including assigns, erasing and grasses.
Unscrambling assigners turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, assign and easing. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including angers, assign and easing.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assigners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, asses and earns. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including anger, gains and gases.
Rearranging the letters in assigners produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and earn. For points, 39 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gain and nags.
Unscrambling assigners turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and nag.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assigners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in assigners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assigners 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.
assigners 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.
assigners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assigners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assigners and reassigns, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assigners 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 assigners produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.