Hidden inside ganders sit dangers, ganders, and gardens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dangers, ganders, and gardens tie for the highest Scrabble score from ganders at 9 points. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ganders: two come from rearranging its letters, and ganders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers and gardens. For points, the strongest plays are dangers, ganders, and gardens — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ganders turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, danger, garden, grades, grands, and ranges. For points, the strongest plays are danger, gander, garden, grades, grands, 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ganders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, dares, dears, drags, earns, grade, and grand. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, degas, drags, dregs, egads, grade, grads, 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 ganders produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, dare, dear, drag, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, drag, dreg, egad, gads, gaed, geds, 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 ganders turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, and, are, ear, end, and era. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ganders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. 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 ganders 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.
ganders 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 ganders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ganders is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ganders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dangers, ganders, and gardens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ganders 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 ganders produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.