gainsayer needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 352 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gainsayer is the highest-scoring word from gainsayer, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 352 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in gainsayer — and it is gainsayer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gainsayer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resaying and synergia, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gainsayer produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing. For points, the strongest plays are agyrias, gainsay, syringa, and syringe — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gainsayer turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, easing, greasy, ranges, saying, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are agyria, anergy, angary, grainy, greasy, gynies, gyrase, raying, saying, and yagers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gainsayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, anger, angry, areas, earns, gains, and gayer. For points, the strongest plays are angry, eying, gayer, grays, greys, gynie, gyres, rangy, yager, yages, yagis, and yangs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gainsayer produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, area, earn, ears, easy, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are gays, gray, grey, gyre, gyri, sagy, yage, yagi, yags, and yang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gainsayer turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, any, are, aye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gainsayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in gainsayer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gainsayer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
gainsayer 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.
gainsayer is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gainsayer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gainsayer, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gainsayer 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 gainsayer produce 352 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.