Hidden inside gallery sit allergy, gallery, largely and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ALLGEYR, LLAGYER or GELYLAR and you get the same 7 letters as GALLERY: so the words from GALLERY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
allergy, gallery, largely and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from gallery at 11 points. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in gallery: three come from rearranging its letters, and gallery itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allergy and gallery. For points, the strongest plays are allergy, gallery, largely, and regally — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gallery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, early and gayer. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including gayer, agley and gally.
Rearranging the letters in gallery produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gray, grey and rage. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gray, grey and agly.
Unscrambling gallery turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and are. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gallery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in gallery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gallery and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gallery 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 seven senses for gallery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
gallery is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gallery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allergy, gallery, largely, and regally, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gallery 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 gallery produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.