Hidden inside gatherer sit gatherer and regather, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gatherer and regather tie for the highest Scrabble score from gatherer at 12 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gatherer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gatherer 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 gatherer and regather, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gatherer produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greater. For points, the strongest plays are greater and regrate — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gatherer turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gather, rather, and regret. For points, the strongest play is gather — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, earth, great, greet, heart, there, and three. For points, the strongest plays are garth and gerah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gatherer produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, gate, hate, hear, heat, here, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are argh, ghat, and ghee — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gatherer turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is hag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in gatherer 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.
gatherer 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in gatherer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for gatherer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
gatherer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gatherer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gatherer and regather, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gatherer 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 gatherer produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.