Hidden inside general sit enlarge, general, and gleaner, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enlarge, general, and gleaner tie for the highest Scrabble score from general at 8 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in general: two come from rearranging its letters, and general itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with general. For points, the strongest plays are enlarge, general, and gleaner — 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 general turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angler, enrage, galere, genera, regale, and regnal, 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in general. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, angel, anger, angle, green, large, and learn. For points, the strongest plays are agene, aglee, agree, angel, anger, angle, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, genre, glare, glean, gnarl, green, lager, large, leger, ragee, range, regal, and regna — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in general produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gene, lane, lean, near, rage, and rang. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, areg, egal, eger, gaen, gale, gane, gean, gear, gene, glee, glen, gnar, gran, gree, lang, rage, and rang — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling general turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gal, gee, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gee, gel, gen, lag, leg, nag, neg, rag, and reg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in general. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest play is ag — 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 general 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.
general 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.
Dictionaries record ten senses for general. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
general is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing general unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enlarge, general, and gleaner, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from general 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 general produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.