Hidden inside grasses sit gassers and grasses, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gassers and grasses tie for the highest Scrabble score from grasses at 8 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in grasses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grasses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grasses. For points, the strongest plays are gassers and grasses — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grasses turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gasses. For points, the strongest plays are gasser, gasses, and sarges — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, gases, grass, and rages. For points, the strongest plays are agers, gases, gears, grass, rages, sager, sages, and sarge — 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 grasses produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, eras, rage, rags, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, ergs, gaes, gars, gear, rage, rags, regs, sage, sags, and segs — 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 grasses turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ass, ear, era, gas, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, rag, reg, sag, and seg — 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 grasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in grasses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grasses and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
grasses 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record ten senses for grasses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
grasses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grasses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gassers and grasses, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grasses 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 grasses produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.