granny needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GNARNY, GNNRAY or NNGYAR and you get the same 6 letters as GRANNY: so the words from GRANNY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
granny is the highest-scoring word from granny, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in granny — and it is granny itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in granny produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gray and rang. For points, the strongest plays are gray and yang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling granny turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, gay and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in granny plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in granny 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.
granny 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for granny. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
granny is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing granny unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is granny, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from granny 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 granny produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.