Hidden inside gesam sit games and mages, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GESAM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GAMES and MAGES.
games and mages tie for the highest Scrabble score from gesam at 8 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gesam. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games. For points, the strongest plays are games and mages — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gesam produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, game, and same. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including game, gams and gems.
Unscrambling gesam turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gas, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gesam. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in gesam and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are games and mages, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gesam 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 gesam produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.