Hidden inside gorges sit gorges and gregos, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gorges and gregos tie for the highest Scrabble score from gorges at 8 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in gorges: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gorges 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 gorges and gregos, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gorges. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gorge, grego, and grogs, 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 gorges produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, egos, goes, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are eggs and grog — 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 gorges turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg and ego. For points, the strongest play is egg — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gorges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is go — 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 gorges 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.
gorges 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 four senses for gorges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
gorges is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gorges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gorges and gregos, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gorges 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 gorges produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.