Hidden inside giraffes sit giraffes and riffages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
giraffes and riffages tie for the highest Scrabble score from giraffes at 15 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in giraffes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and giraffes 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 giraffes and riffages, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in giraffes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gaffers, giraffe, griffes, and riffage, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling giraffes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with griefs. For points, the strongest plays are gaffer, gaffes, griffe, and griffs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in giraffes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fears, fires, fries, grief, rages, raise, and safer. For points, the strongest plays are gaffe, gaffs, and griff — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in giraffes produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ears, eras, fair, fear, and fire. For points, the strongest play is gaff — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling giraffes turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, far, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are aff, eff, and iff — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in giraffes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in giraffes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in giraffes 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.
giraffes 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 1-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 giraffes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
giraffes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing giraffes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are giraffes and riffages, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from giraffes 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 giraffes produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.