encourages needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 615 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
encourages is the highest-scoring word from encourages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 615 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in encourages — and it is encourages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling encourages produces exactly one nine-letter word: encourage. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encourages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with generous. For points, the strongest plays are acrogens, courages, and scrounge — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encourages produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courage, oranges, and surgeon. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including courage, acrogen and cangues.
Unscrambling encourages turns up 114 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, angers and argues. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including graces, cagers and cangue.
There are 167 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encourages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger and argue. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including cages, grace and cager.
Rearranging the letters in encourages produces 167 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, anus and cage. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cage, cogs and crag.
Unscrambling encourages turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and are. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encourages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in encourages plus one additional letter.
encourages 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for encourages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
encourages is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing encourages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is encourages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from encourages 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 encourages produce 615 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 114 six-letter words, 167 five-letter words, 167 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.