Hidden inside gledes sit gledes, gleeds, ledges and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gledes, gleeds, ledges and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from gledes at 8 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in gledes: three come from rearranging its letters, and gledes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gledes, gleeds, ledges, and sledge, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gledes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edges. For points, the strongest plays are edges, gelds, glede, gleds, gleed, ledge, and sedge — 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 gledes produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edge, else, legs, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are edge, geds, geed, geld, 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 gledes turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, led, leg, and see. For points, the strongest play is ged — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gledes. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are 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 gledes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
gledes 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.
gledes is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gledes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gledes, gleeds, ledges, and sledge, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gledes 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 gledes produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.