Hidden inside gradings is one standout: niggards, a eight-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
niggards is the highest-scoring word from gradings, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling gradings produces exactly one eight-letter word: niggards. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gradings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grading. For points, the strongest plays are grading and niggard — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gradings turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, drains, grands, and grinds. For points, the strongest plays are agings, daring, gradin, grands, grinds, and raging — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gradings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, drags, drain, gains, gangs, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are aging, dangs, dings, drags, gadis, gangs, gigas, girds, grads, grand, grids, grigs, grind, and raggs — 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 gradings produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, digs, drag, gags, gain, and gang. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, drag, gadi, gads, gags, gang, gids, giga, gigs, gird, grad, grid, grig, iggs, and ragg — 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 gradings turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, dig, gag, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, gag, gid, gig, and igg — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gradings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — 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 gradings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is niggards, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gradings 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 gradings produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.