Hidden inside garments sit garments and margents, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 367 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
garments and margents tie for the highest Scrabble score from garments at 11 points. The top 10 of 367 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in garments: one comes from rearranging its letters, and garments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are garments and margents, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in garments produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnets and strange. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including magnets, engrams and garment.
Unscrambling garments turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers and grants. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including magnet, engram and gamers.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in garments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and earns. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including games, germs and gamer.
Rearranging the letters in garments produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, amen and ants. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including game, germ and gams.
Unscrambling garments turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in garments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in garments plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in garments 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.
garments 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 two senses for garments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
garments is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing garments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are garments and margents, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from garments 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 garments produce 367 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.