Hidden inside gartering sit gartering and regrating, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 254 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gartering and regrating tie for the highest Scrabble score from gartering at 11 points. The top 10 of 254 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in gartering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gartering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gartering and regrating, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gartering produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, earring, tearing, trainer, and trigger. For points, the strongest plays are garring, gearing, granger, grating, naggier, and trigger — 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 gartering turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating and rating. For points, the strongest plays are ageing, gaeing, ganger, garget, gating, ginger, grange, nagger, raging, rigger, and tagger — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gartering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging, anger, giant, grant, great, and range. For points, the strongest plays are agger, aggie, aging, eggar, and gager — 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 gartering produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gang, gate, near, neat, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are gage, gang, giga, grig, ragg, and tegg — 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 gartering turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, gig, and igg — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gartering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in gartering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gartering 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.
gartering 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.
gartering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gartering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gartering and regrating, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gartering 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 gartering produce 254 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.