gatherings needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 843 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gatherings is the highest-scoring word from gatherings, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 843 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in gatherings — and it is gatherings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gatherings turns up 4 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: gathering, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, hearings, and trashing. For points, the strongest play is shaggier — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gatherings produces 96 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, gathers, hearing, heating, nastier, ratings, and resting. For points, the strongest plays are gashing and shagger — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gatherings turns up 153 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, easing, eating, gather, giants, and grants. For points, the strongest play is haggis — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 213 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, earth, eight, gains, gangs, gates, and giant. For points, the strongest play is gighe — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gatherings produces 209 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, argh, arts, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are argh, gash, ghat, ghis, hags, hang, nigh, shag, and sigh — 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 gatherings turns up 109 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ash, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gatherings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in gatherings plus one additional letter.
gatherings 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for gatherings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
gatherings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gatherings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gatherings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gatherings 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 gatherings produce 843 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 30 eight-letter words, 96 seven-letter words, 153 six-letter words, 213 five-letter words, 209 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.