Hidden inside greased sit dragees and greased, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dragees and greased tie for the highest Scrabble score from greased at 9 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in greased: one comes from rearranging its letters, and greased itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dragees and greased, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling greased turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, erased, grades, and grease. For points, the strongest plays are agreed, dragee, edgers, geared, grades, greeds, and serged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greased. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, dares, dears, deers, drags, eased, and edges. For points, the strongest plays are degas, drags, dregs, edger, edges, egads, grade, grads, greed, raged, and sedge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in greased produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, dare, dear, deer, drag, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, drag, dreg, edge, egad, gads, gaed, geds, geed, and grad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling greased turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, are, ear, era, gas, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greased. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — each 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 greased and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
greased 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 one sense for greased. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
greased is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greased unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dragees and greased, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greased 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 greased produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.