Hidden inside grenade sit agender, angered, derange and 3 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agender, angered, derange and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from grenade at 9 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 seven-letter words hiding in grenade: five come from rearranging its letters, and grenade 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 agender, angered, derange, enraged, grandee, and grenade, 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 grenade turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, danger, earned, garden, and gender. For points, the strongest plays are agreed, danger, dragee, gander, garden, geared, gender, and ranged — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grenade. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger, grade, grand, green, and range. For points, the strongest plays are edger, grade, grand, greed, and raged — 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 grenade produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dear, deer, drag, earn, and edge. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, drag, dreg, edge, egad, gaed, geed, and grad — 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 grenade turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, and, are, ear, end, era, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grenade. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
22 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in grenade plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grenade 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.
grenade 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 one sense for grenade. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
grenade is one of six seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grenade unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agender, angered, derange, enraged, grandee, and grenade, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grenade 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 grenade produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.