Hidden inside grants sit grants and strang, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grants and strang tie for the highest Scrabble score from grants at 7 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in grants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grants itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grants. For points, the strongest plays are grants and strang — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grant. For points, the strongest plays are angst, gnars, gnats, grans, grant, rangs, stang, and tangs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grants produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, nags, rags, rang, rats, and sang. For points, the strongest plays are gars, gast, gats, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, nags, rags, rang, sang, snag, stag, tags, and tang — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grants turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art, gas, nag, rag, ran, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gan, gar, gas, gat, nag, rag, sag, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. 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 grants 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.
grants 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 fifteen senses for grants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
grants is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grants and strang, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grants 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 grants produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.