Hidden inside elderg sit gelder, ledger, and redleg, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ELDERG isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GELDER, LEDGER and REDLEG.
gelder, ledger, and redleg tie for the highest Scrabble score from elderg at 8 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling elderg turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelder, ledger, and redleg, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elderg. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are edger, glede, gleed and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in elderg produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer and edge. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including edge, dreg and geed.
Unscrambling elderg turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, led, leg, and red. For points, the strongest play is ged — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elderg. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in elderg plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in elderg and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelder, ledger, and redleg, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elderg 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 elderg produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.