Hidden inside generals sit enlarges, generals, and gleaners, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enlarges, generals, and gleaners tie for the highest Scrabble score from generals at 9 points. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in generals: two come from rearranging its letters, and generals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enlarges, generals, and gleaners, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in generals produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with general. For points, the strongest plays are anglers, enlarge, enrages, galeres, general, gleaner, and regales — 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 generals turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, angels, angers, angles, grease, learns, and ranges. For points, the strongest plays are agenes, agrees, angels, angers, angler, angles, argles, eagers, eagles, eagres, enrage, galere, genera, genres, glares, gleans, gnarls, grease, greens, lagers, larges, legers, ragees, ranges, regale, regnal, sanger, and senega — 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 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, angel, anger, angle, earns, erase, and genes. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agers, aglee, agree, angel, anger, angle, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, egers, gales, geans, gears, genes, genre, glans, glare, glean, glees, glens, gnarl, gnars, grans, green, grees, lager, large, leger, leges, ragee, rages, range, rangs, regal, reges, regna, sager, sarge, serge, and slang — 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 generals produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, earn, ears, ease, else, eras, and gals. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, egal, eger, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gale, gals, gane, gars, gean, gear, gees, gels, gene, gens, glee, glen, gnar, gran, gree, lags, lang, legs, nags, negs, rage, rags, rang, regs, sage, sang, slag, and snag — 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 generals turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gal, gas, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gas, gee, gel, gen, lag, leg, nag, neg, rag, reg, sag, and seg — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. 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 generals and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
generals 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 generals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
generals is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing generals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enlarges, generals, and gleaners, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from generals 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 generals produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.