gratifies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 363 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gratifies is the highest-scoring word from gratifies, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 363 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in gratifies — and it is gratifies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratifies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are frigates and gasifier, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gratifies produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairest and fairies. For points, the strongest plays are frigate and regifts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gratifies turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, griefs, and tigers. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including griefs, friges and grafts.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates and fears. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including gifts, grief and frags.
Rearranging the letters in gratifies produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and arts. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gift, fags and figs.
Unscrambling gratifies turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in gratifies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gratifies and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
gratifies 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 two senses for gratifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gratifies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gratifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gratifies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gratifies 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 gratifies produce 363 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.