Hidden inside greeter sit greeter and regreet, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greeter and regreet tie for the highest Scrabble score from greeter at 8 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in greeter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and greeter 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 greeter and regreet, 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 greeter produces exactly one six-letter word: regret. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet. For points, the strongest plays are egret and greet — 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 greeter produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tree. For points, the strongest plays are eger and gree — 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 greeter turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee and get. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, get, grr, reg, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greeter. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, et, re, and te, each worth 2 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 greeter 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.
greeter 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 greeter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
greeter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greeter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are greeter and regreet, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greeter 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 greeter produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.