Hidden inside gainsays sit assaying and gainsays, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assaying and gainsays tie for the highest Scrabble score from gainsays at 12 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gainsays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gainsays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assaying and gainsays, 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 gainsays produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gainsay and sayings, 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 gainsays turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign and saying. For points, the strongest plays are saying and syngas — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gainsays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, gains, signs, and sings. For points, the strongest plays are gassy, 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 gainsays produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, nags, sang, says, sign, sing, and sins. For points, the strongest plays are gays, sagy, 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 gainsays turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, ass, gas, gay, nag, say, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are gay 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gainsays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in gainsays plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gainsays and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
gainsays 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 gainsays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
gainsays is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gainsays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assaying and gainsays, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gainsays 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 gainsays produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.