Hidden inside grenades sit deranges, grandees, and grenades, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deranges, grandees, and grenades tie for the highest Scrabble score from grenades at 10 points. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in grenades: two come from rearranging its letters, and grenades 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 deranges, grandees, and grenades, each 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 grenades produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers, gardens, and genders. For points, the strongest plays are agender, angered, dangers, derange, dragees, enraged, ganders, gardens, genders, grandee, greased, 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 grenades turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, angers, danger, earned, erased, and garden. For points, the strongest plays are agreed, danger, dragee, edgers, gander, garden, geared, gender, grades, grands, greeds, ranged, and serged — 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 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grenades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger, dares, dears, deers, drags, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, degas, drags, dregs, edger, edges, egads, grade, grads, grand, greed, raged, and sedge — 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 grenades produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, dare, dear, deer, drag, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, drag, dreg, edge, egad, gads, gaed, geds, 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 grenades turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, and, are, ear, end, and era. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grenades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. 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.
Swap a single tile in grenades 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.
grenades 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 grenades. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
grenades is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grenades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deranges, grandees, and grenades, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grenades 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 grenades produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.