Hidden inside grandmas sit grandams and grandmas, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grandams and grandmas tie for the highest Scrabble score from grandmas at 12 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in grandmas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grandmas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grandmas. For points, the strongest plays are grandams and grandmas — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grandmas produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grandma. For points, the strongest plays are grandam, grandma, and smaragd — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grandmas turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dramas and grands. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including dramas, damans and damars.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grandmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, drags, drama, and grand. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including damns, drama and adman.
Rearranging the letters in grandmas produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, damn and drag. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including damn, agma and dams.
Unscrambling grandmas turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and arm. For points, the strongest plays are dam, gam, mad, and mag — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grandmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are am and ma — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in grandmas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grandmas 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.
grandmas 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 3-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 grandmas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
grandmas is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grandmas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grandams and grandmas, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grandmas 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 grandmas produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.