Hidden inside grandest sit dragnets and grandest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 367 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dragnets and grandest tie for the highest Scrabble score from grandest at 10 points. The top 10 of 367 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in grandest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grandest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grandest. For points, the strongest plays are dragnets and grandest — 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 grandest produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers, gardens, granted, and strange. For points, the strongest plays are angsted, dangers, dangest, dragnet, ganders, gardens, granted, and stanged — 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 grandest turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, danger, garden, grades, grands, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are danger, gander, garden, gasted, grades, grands, grated, ranged, staged, and tanged — 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 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grandest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, dares, dates, dears, drags, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, degas, drags, dregs, egads, gated, grade, grads, grand, 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 grandest produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, ants, arts, dare, date, and dear. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, 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 grandest turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, and, ant, are, art, and ate. 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grandest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. 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 grandest 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.
grandest 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.
grandest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grandest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dragnets and grandest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grandest 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 grandest produce 367 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.