gratuitous 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, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gratuitous is the highest-scoring word from gratuitous, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in gratuitous — and it is gratuitous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gratuitous produces exactly one eight-letter word: tourista. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gratuitous produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guitars and tourist. For points, the strongest plays are agoutis, giaours, guitars, orgiast, outrigs, ragouts, rotguts, and tautogs — 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 gratuitous turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist and guitar. For points, the strongest plays are agouti, argots, augurs, august, gators, giaour, gratis, griots, groats, grouts, guiros, guitar, outgas, outrig, ragout, rotgut, rugosa, rugous, tautog, tragus, and trigos — 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratuitous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, goats, riots, roast, stair, start, and sugar. For points, the strongest plays are agios, agist, agros, argot, argus, augur, gaits, gator, gaurs, giros, girts, goats, gotta, gouts, griot, grist, grits, groat, grots, grout, guars, guiro, gurus, gusto, gutta, ragis, sargo, staig, sugar, togas, tragi, trigo, trigs, trogs, and trugs — 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 gratuitous produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, auto, goat, guts, ours, and rags. For points, the strongest plays are agio, agro, gait, gars, gast, gats, gaur, giro, girt, gist, gits, goas, goat, gout, grat, grit, grot, guar, guru, gust, guts, orgs, ragi, rags, rigs, ruga, rugs, sago, stag, tags, toga, togs, trig, trog, trug, and tugs — 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 gratuitous turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, art, gas, got, gut, and its. For points, the strongest plays are ago, ags, gar, gas, gat, gis, git, goa, gor, gos, got, gut, org, rag, rig, rug, sag, sig, tag, tog, 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 gratuitous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, is, it, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
gratuitous 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 3-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 gratuitous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
gratuitous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gratuitous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gratuitous, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gratuitous 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 gratuitous produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.