Hidden inside gaits sit agist, gaits, and staig, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agist, gaits, and staig tie for the highest Scrabble score from gaits at 6 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in gaits: two come from rearranging its letters, and gaits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agist, gaits, and staig, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gaits produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tags. For points, the strongest plays are gait, gast, gats, gist, gits, stag, and tags — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gaits turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gas, its, sat, sit, and tag. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gas, gat, gis, git, sag, sig, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gaits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in gaits and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
gaits 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 three senses for gaits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
gaits is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gaits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agist, gaits, and staig, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gaits 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 gaits produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.