Hidden inside glandes sit dangles, glandes, lagends and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 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.
dangles, glandes, lagends and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from glandes at 9 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in glandes: three come from rearranging its letters, and glandes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dangles, glandes, lagends, and slanged, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling glandes turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angels and angles. For points, the strongest plays are angled, dangle, glades, glands, and lagend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glandes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, angle, deals, lands, lanes, leads, and leans. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, degas, egads, galed, gelds, glade, glads, gland, and gleds — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in glandes produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, deal, ends, gals, glad, and lads. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, egad, gads, gaed, geds, geld, glad, and gled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling glandes turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, and, end, gal, gas, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — each worth 5 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 glandes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — each 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 glandes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
glandes 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.
glandes is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glandes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dangles, glandes, lagends, and slanged, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from glandes 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 glandes produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.