Hidden inside glosser sit glosser and regloss, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glosser and regloss tie for the highest Scrabble score from glosser at 8 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in glosser: one comes from rearranging its letters, and glosser 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 glosser and regloss, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glosser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gross, loser and loses. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including gross, gesso and gloss.
Rearranging the letters in glosser produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes and legs. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including egos, goes and legs.
Unscrambling glosser turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, leg, and log. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including ego, leg and log.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in glosser plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in glosser 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.
glosser 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.
glosser is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glosser unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glosser and regloss, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from glosser 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 glosser produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.