Hidden inside greatness sit estranges, greatness, and sergeants, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 470 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estranges, greatness, and sergeants tie for the highest Scrabble score from greatness at 10 points. The top 10 of 470 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in greatness: two come from rearranging its letters, and greatness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sergeants. For points, the strongest plays are estranges, greatness, and sergeants — 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 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greatness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sergeant. For points, the strongest plays are estrange, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, restages, sergeant, and stranges — 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 greatness produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, easters, greases, nearest, resents, and strange. For points, the strongest plays are argents, enrages, ergates, garnets, gasters, gerents, grantee, greases, greaten, negater, negates, reagent, regents, restage, sangers, senegas, stagers, and strange — 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 greatness turns up 93 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees, angers, easter, enters, erases, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are agenes, agents, agrees, angers, angsts, argent, eagers, eagres, egesta, egests, egress, egrets, enrage, ergate, garnet, gasser, gaster, gaters, geests, genera, genets, genres, gentes, gerent, gestes, grants, grates, grease, greats, greens, greets, negate, ragees, ranges, regent, retags, sagest, sanger, sarges, senega, serges, stager, stages, stangs, strang, targes, and tenges — 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 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greatness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, earns, eases, eaten, and enter. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agent, agers, agree, anger, angst, eager, eagre, egers, egest, egret, gases, gasts, gater, gates, geans, gears, geest, genes, genet, genre, gents, geste, gests, getas, gnars, gnats, grans, grant, grass, grate, great, green, grees, greet, ragee, rages, range, rangs, reges, regna, retag, sager, sages, sarge, serge, snags, stage, stags, stang, tangs, targe, tenge, 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 greatness produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, and east. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, eger, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gees, gene, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gree, nags, negs, rage, rags, rang, regs, sage, sags, sang, segs, snag, stag, tags, tang, and tegs — 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 greatness turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gee, gen, get, nag, neg, rag, reg, sag, seg, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greatness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in greatness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in greatness and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
greatness 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for greatness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
greatness is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greatness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estranges, greatness, and sergeants, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greatness 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 greatness produce 470 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 93 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.