Hidden inside dragnet sit dragnet and granted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dragnet and granted tie for the highest Scrabble score from dragnet at 9 points. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dragnet: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dragnet itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with granted. For points, the strongest plays are dragnet and granted — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dragnet turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danger and garden. For points, the strongest plays are danger, gander, garden, grated, ranged, and tanged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dragnet. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, grade, grand, grant, great, and range. For points, the strongest plays are gated, grade, grand, and raged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dragnet produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, date, dear, drag, earn, and gate. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, drag, dreg, egad, gaed, and grad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dragnet turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, and, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — each worth 5 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 dragnet. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — 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 dragnet 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.
dragnet 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for dragnet. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
dragnet is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dragnet unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dragnet and granted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dragnet 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 dragnet produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.