Hidden inside grenadiers sit grenadiers and rereadings, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 715 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grenadiers and rereadings tie for the highest Scrabble score from grenadiers at 12 points. The top 10 of 715 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in grenadiers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grenadiers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grenadiers and rereadings, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grenadiers turns up 9 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gardeners. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including gardeners, derangers and deringers.
There are 35 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grenadiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer, disagree and earrings. For points, 21 words tie at 10 points, including designer, disagree and gardener.
Rearranging the letters in grenadiers produces 87 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, dangers and earring. For points, 34 words tie at 9 points, including dangers, gardens and genders.
Unscrambling grenadiers turns up 162 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees and angers. For points, 36 words tie at 8 points, including agreed, danger and daring.
There are 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grenadiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, aired and anger. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including drags, edges and grade.
Rearranging the letters in grenadiers produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and aids. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including aged, digs and drag.
Unscrambling grenadiers turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and aid. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dag and gad.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grenadiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in grenadiers plus one additional letter.
grenadiers 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 two senses for grenadiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
grenadiers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grenadiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grenadiers and rereadings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grenadiers 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 grenadiers produce 715 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 35 eight-letter words, 87 seven-letter words, 162 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.