Hidden inside gardner sit gnarred and grander, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GARDNER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GNARRED and GRANDER.
gnarred and grander tie for the highest Scrabble score from gardner at 9 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in gardner produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grander. For points, the strongest plays are gnarred and grander — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gardner turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danger, errand and garden. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including danger, garden and grader.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gardner. 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.
Rearranging the letters in gardner produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and dear. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including aged, drag and dang.
Unscrambling gardner turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, and and are. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in gardner plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gardner 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gnarred and grander, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gardner 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 gardner produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.