Hidden inside egret sit egret and greet, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
egret and greet tie for the highest Scrabble score from egret at 6 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in egret: one comes from rearranging its letters, and egret itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet. For points, the strongest plays are egret and greet — 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 egret produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tree. For points, the strongest plays are eger and gree — 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 egret turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee and get. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, get, reg, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in egret. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, et, re, and te, each worth 2 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 egret and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
egret 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 egret. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
egret is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing egret unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are egret and greet, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from egret 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 egret produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.