Hidden inside gratulates sit gastrulate and gratulates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 524 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gastrulate and gratulates tie for the highest Scrabble score from gratulates at 11 points. The top 10 of 524 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in gratulates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gratulates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gastrulate and gratulates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gratulates turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gastrulae and gratulate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratulates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agrestal, gastrula, gestural, guttlers, and regattas, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gratulates produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gutters, largest, startle, targets, and turtles. For points, the strongest plays are alegars, gastral, gastrea, gateaus, gestalt, gutters, guttler, guttles, laagers, largest, regatta, targets, teargas, and tegular — 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 gratulates turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars, alters, argues, gutter, latest, and lattes. For points, the strongest plays are agates, aglare, aglets, alegar, argals, argles, argues, augers, galeas, gaster, gateau, gaters, gaults, glares, gluers, glutes, graals, grates, greats, gruels, gulars, guttae, gutter, guttle, laager, lagers, larges, lugers, retags, rugate, sauger, stager, stalag, targas, targes, target, teguas, tegula, tergal, and tragus — 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 147 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratulates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, altar, alter, areas, argue, gates, and glues. For points, the strongest plays are agars, agate, agers, aglet, aglus, agues, algae, algas, argal, argle, argue, argus, auger, galas, galea, gales, gater, gates, gault, gaurs, gears, gelts, getas, glare, gluer, glues, glute, gluts, graal, grate, great, gruel, grues, guars, guest, gular, gules, gutta, lager, large, luger, luges, ragas, rages, regal, retag, rugae, rugal, sager, sarge, stage, sugar, surge, targa, targe, tegua, tegus, terga, 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 gratulates produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, area, arts, sure, tags, tale, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are agar, agas, ager, ages, aglu, ague, alga, areg, tags, tegs, tegu, trug, tugs, urge, egal, ergs, gaes, gala, gale, gals, gars, gast, gate, gats, gaur, gear, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, glue, glut, grat, grue, guar, guls, gust, guts, lags, legs, luge, lugs, raga, rage, rags, regs, ruga, rugs, saga, sage, slag, slug, and stag — 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 gratulates turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aga, age, ags, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gat, gel, get, gul, gut, lag, leg, lug, rag, reg, rug, sag, seg, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gratulates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in gratulates plus one additional letter.
gratulates 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.
gratulates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gratulates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gastrulate and gratulates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gratulates 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 gratulates produce 524 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 147 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.