Hidden inside gradations sit gradations and indagators, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 694 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gradations and indagators tie for the highest Scrabble score from gradations at 12 points. The top 10 of 694 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in gradations: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gradations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gradations and indagators, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gradations turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gradation and indagator, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gradations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gorditas and tradings, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gradations produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adoring, against, datings, dragons, ratings, sorting, and staring. For points, the strongest plays are adagios, adoring, agatoid, darings, darting, datings, doating, dragons, ganoids, gardant, gordita, gradins, and trading — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gradations turns up 114 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, dating, dragon, drains, giants, grands, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are adagio, daring, dating, dingos, doings, dongas, dosing, doting, dragon, ganoid, gardai, gonads, gradin, grands, and grinds — 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 195 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gradations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, doing, drags, drain, gains, giant, and goats. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, dingo, dings, doing, donga, dongs, drags, gadis, garda, girds, goads, gonad, grads, grand, grids, and grind — 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 gradations produces 196 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, ants, arts, nags, rags, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, dogs, dong, drag, gadi, gads, gids, gird, goad, gods, grad, and grid — 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 gradations turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago, aid, air, and, ant, and art. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, dog, gad, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gradations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, do, go, and id. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, do, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in gradations plus one additional letter.
gradations 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 three senses for gradations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
gradations is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gradations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gradations and indagators, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gradations 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 gradations produce 694 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 114 six-letter words, 195 five-letter words, 196 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.