greatest needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greatest is the highest-scoring word from greatest, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in greatest — and it is greatest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in greatest produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with targets. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including targets, ergates and gestate.
Unscrambling greatest turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easter and estate. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including agrees, grease and greets.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greatest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, erase and gates. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including agree, gates and great.
Rearranging the letters in greatest produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts and ears. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gate and gets.
Unscrambling greatest turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and gee.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in greatest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in greatest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
greatest 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 greatest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
greatest is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greatest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is greatest, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from greatest 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 greatest produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.