gratuities needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 413 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gratuities is the highest-scoring word from gratuities, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 413 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in gratuities — and it is gratuities itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gratuities produces exactly one nine-letter word: guitarist. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gratuities produces exactly one eight-letter word: turgites. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gratuities produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guitars, gutters, targets, and tastier. For points, the strongest plays are aigrets, artigis, augites, gaiters, guitars, gustier, gutsier, gutters, guttier, seagirt, stagier, targets, triages, and turgite — 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 gratuities turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argues, artist, guitar, gutter, sitter, statue, and target. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, aigret, argues, artigi, atigis, augers, augite, gaiter, gaster, gaters, grates, gratis, greats, guitar, guttae, gutter, regius, retags, rugate, sagier, sauger, stager, targes, target, teguas, tigers, tragus, and triage — 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 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratuities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue, gates, great, guest, rages, raise, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agist, agues, argue, argus, atigi, auger, gaits, gater, gates, gaurs, gears, getas, girts, gites, grate, great, grist, grits, grues, guars, guest, guise, gutta, rages, ragis, retag, rugae, sager, sarge, stage, staig, sugar, surge, targe, tegua, tegus, terga, tiger, tragi, trigs, trugs, urges, and usage — 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 gratuities produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, ague, areg, egis, ergs, gaes, gait, gars, gast, gate, gats, gaur, gear, gest, geta, gets, gies, girt, gist, gite, gits, grat, grit, grue, guar, gust, guts, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, ruga, rugs, sage, stag, tags, tegs, tegu, trig, trug, tugs, and urge — 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 gratuities turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, gat, get, gie, gis, git, gut, rag, reg, rig, rug, sag, seg, sig, tag, teg, and tug — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratuities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in gratuities plus one additional letter.
gratuities 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 two senses for gratuities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
gratuities is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gratuities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gratuities, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gratuities 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 gratuities produce 413 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 25 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.