Hidden inside gatherers sit gatherers and regathers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gatherers and regathers tie for the highest Scrabble score from gatherers at 13 points. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in gatherers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gatherers 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 gatherers and regathers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherers. 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 gatherers produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gathers, greater, and regrets. For points, the strongest play is gathers — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gatherers turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, arrest, easter, gather, grease, greets, and hearts. For points, the strongest plays are garths, gasher, gather, and gerahs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, earth, erase, gates, great, greet, and hates. For points, the strongest plays are garth, gerah, ghast, ghats, and ghees — 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 gatherers produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, argh, arts, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are argh, gash, ghat, ghee, hags, and shag — 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 gatherers turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ash, ate, ear, and eat. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — 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 gatherers 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.
gatherers 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 gatherers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for gatherers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gatherers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gatherers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gatherers and regathers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gatherers 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 gatherers produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.