Hidden inside gadgetries sit gadgetries and raggediest, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 636 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gadgetries and raggediest tie for the highest Scrabble score from gadgetries at 13 points. The top 10 of 636 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in gadgetries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gadgetries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gadgetries and raggediest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gadgetries turns up 6 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tragedies. For points, the strongest plays are draggiest, dreggiest, gadgetier, raggedest, and staggered — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gadgetries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with disagree, readiest, and steadier. For points, the strongest plays are retagged and saggered — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gadgetries produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest. For points, the strongest plays are daggers, diggers, gadgets, stagged, and trigged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gadgetries turns up 118 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, desert, desire, driest, easier, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are dagger, degage, digger, gadget, ragged, rigged, sagged, and tagged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 177 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gadgetries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, aired, aside, dares, dates, dears, and deers. For points, the strongest plays are egged, gaged, and igged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gadgetries produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, aids, airs, arts, dare, and date. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, digs, drag, dreg, edge, egad, eggs, gadi, gads, gaed, gage, gags, geds, geed, gids, gied, giga, gigs, gird, grad, grid, grig, iggs, ragg, and tegg — 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 gadgetries turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, aid, air, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, egg, gad, gag, ged, gid, gig, and igg — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gadgetries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. 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.
gadgetries 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 gadgetries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gadgetries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gadgetries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gadgetries and raggediest, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gadgetries 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 gadgetries produce 636 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 118 six-letter words, 177 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.