glossaries needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 486 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glossaries is the highest-scoring word from glossaries, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 486 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in glossaries — and it is glossaries itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling glossaries turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gasoliers, girasoles, and seraglios, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glossaries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argosies, gasolier, girasole, girasols, glassier, glassies, glossers, glossier, glossies, seraglio, and soilages, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in glossaries produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glasses, glories, grasses, and sailors. For points, the strongest plays are galores, gaolers, gasless, gassers, gassier, girasol, glaires, glasses, glassie, glioses, glisses, glorias, glories, glossae, glossas, glosser, glosses, goalies, grasses, grilses, grosses, largess, ligases, regloss, silages, and soilage — 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 glossaries turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, gasses, lasers, losers, losses, orgies, and raises. For points, the strongest plays are algors, argils, argles, argols, galore, gaoler, gasser, gasses, glaire, glairs, glares, glisse, gloria, glossa, goalie, gorals, gorses, grails, grilse, lagers, larges, largos, ligase, ligers, logier, oglers, ogress, orgies, sagier, sarges, sargos, siglos, 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 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glossaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, asses, gases, girls, glass, goals, and grass. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agile, agios, agros, algor, argil, argle, argol, gales, gaols, gases, gears, gesso, girls, giros, glair, glare, glass, glias, gloss, goals, goers, goral, gores, gorse, grail, grass, gross, lager, large, largo, liger, loges, logia, ogler, ogles, ogres, rages, ragis, regal, sager, sages, sagos, sarge, sargo, segos, sigla, slags, and slogs — 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 glossaries produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, also, legs, less, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agio, agro, areg, lags, legs, loge, logs, ogle, ogre, orgs, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, sage, sago, sags, sego, segs, sigs, slag, slog, egal, egis, egos, ergo, ergs, gaes, gale, gals, gaol, gars, gear, gels, gies, girl, giro, glia, goal, goas, goer, goes, and gore — 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 glossaries turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, air, are, ass, ear, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gel, gie, gis, goa, gor, gos, lag, leg, log, org, rag, reg, rig, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glossaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, 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.
glossaries 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 one sense for glossaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
glossaries is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glossaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is glossaries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from glossaries 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 glossaries produce 486 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.