Hidden inside gregarine sit gregarine and regearing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gregarine and regearing tie for the highest Scrabble score from gregarine at 11 points. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in gregarine: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gregarine itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gregarine and regearing, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gregarine. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: agreeing, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gregarine produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier and earring. For points, the strongest plays are engager, garring, gearing, granger, greeing, and naggier — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gregarine turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engage and nearer. For points, the strongest plays are ageing, eggier, engage, gaeing, ganger, geeing, ginger, grange, greige, nagger, raggee, raging, reggae, and rigger — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gregarine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, agree, anger, green, and range. For points, the strongest plays are agger, aggie, aging, eggar, egger, and gager — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gregarine produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gang, gene, near, rage, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are gage, gang, giga, grig, and ragg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gregarine turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, egg, era, and gag. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gregarine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in gregarine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gregarine 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.
gregarine 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 3-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 gregarine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
gregarine is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gregarine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gregarine and regearing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gregarine 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 gregarine produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.