Hidden inside gardeners sit derangers and gardeners, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 357 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derangers and gardeners tie for the highest Scrabble score from gardeners at 11 points. The top 10 of 357 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in gardeners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gardeners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gardeners. For points, the strongest plays are derangers and gardeners — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gardeners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gardener. For points, the strongest plays are deranger, deranges, gardener, garnered, grandees, grenades, and regrades — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gardeners produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers, errands, gardens, genders, graders, grander, and regards. For points, the strongest plays are agender, angered, dangers, derange, dragees, enraged, ganders, gardens, genders, gnarred, graders, grandee, grander, greased, grenade, regards, and regrade — 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 gardeners turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, angers, danger, dearer, earned, and erased. For points, the strongest plays are agreed, danger, dragee, edgers, gander, garden, garred, geared, gender, grader, grades, grands, greeds, ranged, regard, and serged — 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gardeners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger, dares, dears, deers, drags, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, degas, drags, dregs, edger, edges, egads, grade, grads, grand, greed, raged, and sedge — 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 gardeners produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, dare, dear, deer, drag, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, drag, dreg, edge, egad, gads, gaed, geds, geed, 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 gardeners turns up 53 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 gardeners. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in gardeners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gardeners and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
gardeners 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 two senses for gardeners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
gardeners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gardeners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derangers and gardeners, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gardeners 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 gardeners produce 357 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.