Hidden inside grease sit agrees, eagers, eagres and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agrees, eagers, eagres and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from grease at 7 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in grease: four come from rearranging its letters, and grease itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees and grease. For points, the strongest plays are agrees, eagers, eagres, grease, and ragees — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grease. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, erase, and rages. For points, the strongest plays are agers, agree, eager, eagre, egers, gears, grees, ragee, rages, reges, sager, sarge, and serge — 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 grease produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, ease, eras, rage, and rags. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, eger, ergs, gaes, gars, gear, gees, gree, rage, rags, regs, and sage — 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 grease turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gas, gee, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, gee, 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 grease. 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.
Swap a single tile in grease and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
grease 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 three senses for grease. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
grease is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grease unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agrees, eagers, eagres, grease, and ragees, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grease 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 grease produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.