gestations needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 577 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gestations is the highest-scoring word from gestations, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 577 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in gestations — and it is gestations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gestations turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agonistes, angstiest, gestation, and toastings, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gestations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest, stations, testings, and toasting. For points, the strongest plays are agonises, agonists, eastings, egotists, estating, genistas, giantess, goatiest, seatings, settings, stagiest, tangiest, tastings, testings, and toasting — 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 gestations produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seating, setting, station, tangoes, tasting, teasing, and testing. For points, the strongest plays are ageists, agonies, agonise, agonist, easting, eatings, egoists, egotist, genista, gitanos, goettas, ingates, ingesta, ingests, onstage, sagiest, seating, setting, signets, stating, stinges, stingos, stogies, tagines, tangoes, tasting, teasing, testing, and tossing — 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 gestations turns up 96 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, assign, easing, eating, giants, gotten, and noises. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, agists, agones, angsts, assign, atting, easing, eating, egoist, gainst, genoas, giants, gitano, gneiss, gnoses, gnosis, goetta, gossan, gotten, ingate, ingest, ingots, sagest, sating, segnos, signet, singes, soigne, stages, staigs, stangs, stinge, stingo, stings, stogie, tagine, tangos, tasing, tigons, tinges, toeing, togate, tongas, and toting — 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 144 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gestations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, seats, signs, sings, sites, songs, and stage. For points, the strongest plays are sages, sagos, segni, segno, segos, sengi, signa, signs, singe, sings, snags, snogs, songs, stage, stags, staig, stang, sting, tango, tangs, aegis, agent, agios, agist, agone, agons, angst, gains, gaits, gases, gasts, gates, geans, genoa, gents, gesso, gests, getas, giant, gists, gites, gnats, goats, goest, gonia, gotta, ingot, tigon, tinge, tings, togae, togas, tonga, and tongs — 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 gestations produces 148 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, east, eats, egos, gain, and gate. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, agio, agon, egis, egos, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gite, gits, gnat, goas, goat, goes, gone, nags, negs, nogs, sage, sago, sags, sang, sego, segs, sign, sigs, sing, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, tegs, ting, toga, togs, and tong — 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 gestations turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ass, ate, eat, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, eng, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, goa, gos, got, nag, neg, nog, sag, seg, sig, tag, teg, and tog — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gestations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
gestations 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for gestations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
gestations is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gestations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gestations, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gestations 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 gestations produce 577 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 23 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 96 six-letter words, 144 five-letter words, 148 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.