Hidden inside greeters sit greeters and regreets, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greeters and regreets tie for the highest Scrabble score from greeters at 9 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in greeters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and greeters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are greeters and regreets, 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 greeters produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regrets. For points, the strongest plays are greeter, regreet, and regrets — 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 greeters turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greets and regret. For points, the strongest plays are egrets, greets, regret, and serger — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greeters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geese, greet, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are egers, egest, egret, geese, geest, geste, grees, greet, reges, and serge — 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 greeters produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, rest, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eger, ergs, gees, gest, gets, gree, regs, 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 greeters turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, get, grr, reg, seg, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greeters. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in greeters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in greeters 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.
greeters 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 greeters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
greeters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greeters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are greeters and regreets, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greeters 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 greeters produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.