Hidden inside drainage sit drainage and gardenia, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 196 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drainage and gardenia tie for the highest Scrabble score from drainage at 10 points. The top 10 of 196 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in drainage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drainage 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 drainage and gardenia, 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 drainage produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reading. For points, the strongest plays are deraign, gradine, grained, and reading — 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 drainage turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agenda, danger, daring, gained, garden, and rained. For points, the strongest plays are agenda, danger, daring, dinger, engird, gained, gander, gardai, garden, girned, gradin, ranged, reding, and ringed — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drainage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, aired, anger, diner, drain, grade, and grand. For points, the strongest plays are adage, deign, dinge, dirge, garda, grade, grand, gride, grind, raged, and ridge — 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 drainage produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, area, dare, dear, dine, drag, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, ding, drag, dreg, egad, gadi, gaed, gied, gird, grad, and grid — 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 drainage turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, air, and, are, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, ged, and gid — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drainage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, and id — 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 drainage 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.
drainage 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 one sense for drainage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
drainage is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drainage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drainage and gardenia, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drainage 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 drainage produce 196 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.