glassies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glassies is the highest-scoring word from glassies, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in glassies — and it is glassies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in glassies produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glasses. For points, the strongest plays are gasless, glasses, glassie, glisses, ligases, and silages — 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 glassies turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles and gasses. For points, the strongest plays are gasses, glisse, ligase, and silage — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glassies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, asses, gases, glass, sails, sales, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, gales, gases, glass, glias, sages, sigla, and slags — 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 glassies produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gals, legs, less, lies, sail, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are ages, egal, egis, gaes, gale, gals, gels, gies, glia, lags, legs, sage, sags, segs, sigs, and slag — 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 glassies turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, gal, gas, leg, lie, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gal, gas, gel, gie, gis, lag, leg, sag, seg, and sig — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glassies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — 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 glassies 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.
glassies 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 glassies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
glassies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glassies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is glassies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from glassies 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 glassies produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.