Hidden inside gelders sit gelders, ledgers, and redlegs, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelders, ledgers, and redlegs tie for the highest Scrabble score from gelders at 9 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in gelders: two come from rearranging its letters, and gelders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelders, ledgers, and redlegs, 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 gelders turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are edgers, gelder, gledes, gleeds, greeds, ledger, ledges, redleg, serged, and sledge, 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gelders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers and edges. For points, the strongest plays are dregs, edger, edges, gelds, glede, gleds, gleed, greed, ledge, and sedge — 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 gelders produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, edge, else, legs, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, edge, geds, geed, geld, and gled — 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 gelders turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, led, leg, red, and see. For points, the strongest play is ged — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gelders. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 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 gelders and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gelders 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.
gelders is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gelders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelders, ledgers, and redlegs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gelders 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 gelders produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.