Hidden inside grange sit ganger, grange, and nagger, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ganger, grange, and nagger tie for the highest Scrabble score from grange at 8 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in grange: two come from rearranging its letters, and grange itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ganger, grange, and nagger, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grange. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger and range. For points, the strongest plays are agger, eggar, and gager — 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 grange produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gang, near, rage, and rang. For points, the strongest plays are gage, gang, 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 grange turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, egg, era, gag, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are egg and gag — 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 grange. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest play is ag — 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 grange 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.
grange 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 grange. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
grange is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grange unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ganger, grange, and nagger, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grange 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 grange produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.