Hidden inside greater sit greater and regrate, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greater and regrate tie for the highest Scrabble score from greater at 8 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in greater: one comes from rearranging its letters, and greater itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greater. For points, the strongest plays are greater and regrate — 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 greater turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regret. For points, the strongest plays are ergate, garret, garter, grater, regear, and regret — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, great, and greet. For points, the strongest plays are agree, eager, eagre, egret, gater, grate, great, greet, ragee, rager, retag, targe, and terga — 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 greater produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, rage, rare, rate, tear, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, areg, eger, gate, gear, geta, grat, gree, and rage — 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 greater turns up 28 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 age, erg, gae, gar, gat, gee, get, grr, rag, reg, tag, and teg — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. 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 greater 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.
greater 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 greater. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
greater is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greater unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are greater and regrate, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greater 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 greater produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.