gingerbread needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 553 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gingerbread is the highest-scoring word from gingerbread, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 553 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in gingerbread — and it is gingerbread itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gingerbread turns up 11 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regarding. For points, the strongest play is badgering — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gingerbread. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreeing, breeding, and gardener. For points, the strongest play is beggared — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gingerbread produces 67 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, bearing and bragged. For points, the strongest plays are badging and bragged — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gingerbread turns up 123 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, banged and begged. For points, the strongest plays are bagged and begged — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gingerbread. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, agree and aired. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, debag, and gibed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gingerbread produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, bade and band. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including bade, band and bang.
Unscrambling gingerbread turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and air. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bag and bed.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gingerbread. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in gingerbread plus one additional letter.
gingerbread 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for gingerbread. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
gingerbread is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gingerbread unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gingerbread, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gingerbread 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 gingerbread produce 553 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 11 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 67 seven-letter words, 123 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.