Hidden inside graders sit graders and regards, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
graders and regards tie for the highest Scrabble score from graders at 9 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in graders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and graders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: graders and regards, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling graders turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grader, grades, and regard. For points, the strongest plays are garred, grader, grades, and regard — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in graders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, drags, grade, rages, and reads. For points, the strongest plays are degas, drags, dregs, egads, grade, grads, and raged — 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 graders produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, dare, dear, drag, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, drag, dreg, egad, gads, gaed, geds, and grad — 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 graders turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, are, ear, era, gas, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in graders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. 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 graders 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.
graders 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 graders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
graders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing graders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are graders and regards, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from graders 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 graders produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.