Hidden inside gloater sit gloater and legator, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gloater and legator tie for the highest Scrabble score from gloater at 8 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gloater: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gloater 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 gloater and legator, 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 gloater turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are galore, gaoler, garote, gelato, legato, orgeat, tergal, and toerag, 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 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gloater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, great, large, and later. For points, the strongest plays are aglet, algor, argle, argol, argot, ergot, gater, gator, glare, gloat, goral, grate, great, groat, lager, large, largo, ogler, regal, retag, targe, terga, and togae — 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 gloater produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, goal, goat, late, oral, rage, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are ager, agro, areg, egal, ergo, gale, gaol, gate, gear, gelt, geta, goal, goat, goer, gore, grat, grot, loge, ogle, ogre, rage, toga, and trog — 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 gloater turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ego, erg, gae, gal, gar, gat, gel, get, goa, gor, got, lag, leg, log, org, rag, reg, tag, teg, and tog — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gloater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — 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 gloater 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.
gloater 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.
gloater is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gloater unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gloater and legator, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gloater 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 gloater produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.