gangster needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gangster is the highest-scoring word from gangster, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in gangster — and it is gangster itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gangster produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strange. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including gagster, gangers and gargets.
Unscrambling gangster turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, grants, and ranges. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including aggers, eggars and gagers.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gangster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and earns. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including gangs, agger and eggar.
Rearranging the letters in gangster produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and arts. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including eggs, gags and gang.
Unscrambling gangster turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, the strongest plays are egg and gag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gangster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in gangster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gangster 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.
gangster 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 3-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 gangster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
gangster is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gangster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gangster, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gangster 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 gangster produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.