Hidden inside graded sit gadder and graded, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gadder and graded tie for the highest Scrabble score from graded at 9 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in graded: one comes from rearranging its letters, and graded itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with graded. For points, the strongest plays are gadder and graded — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in graded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared and grade. For points, the strongest plays are adder, dared, dread, grade, raged, and readd — 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 graded produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dead, dear, drag, rage, and read. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dead, drag, dreg, egad, gaed, grad, and redd — 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 graded turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, age, are, dad, ear, era, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, dag, gad, and ged — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in graded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — 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 graded 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.
graded 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 1-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 graded. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
graded is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing graded unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gadder and graded, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from graded 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 graded produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.