Hidden inside german sit engram, german, manger and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
engram, german, manger and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from german at 9 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in german: three come from rearranging its letters, and german itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are engram, german, manger, and ragmen, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in german. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger and range. For points, the strongest plays are gamer, mange, marge, and regma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in german produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn, game, germ, mean, name, and near. For points, the strongest plays are game, germ, gram, mage, marg, and mega — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling german turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, arm, ear, era, man, and men. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 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 german. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 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 german and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
german 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 three senses for german. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
german is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing german unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are engram, german, manger, and ragmen, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from german 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 german produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.