Hidden inside gander sit danger, gander, garden and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
danger, gander, garden and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from gander at 8 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in gander: three come from rearranging its letters, and gander itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danger and garden. For points, the strongest plays are danger, gander, garden, and ranged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gander. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, grade, grand, and range. For points, the strongest plays are grade, grand, and raged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gander produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dear, drag, earn, near, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, drag, dreg, egad, gaed, and grad — 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 gander turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, and, are, ear, end, era, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gander. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — 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 gander and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
gander 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 gander. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
gander is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gander unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are danger, gander, garden, and ranged, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gander 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 gander produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.