greylag needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greylag is the highest-scoring word from greylag, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in greylag — and it is greylag itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greylag. If a familiar word is all you need, start with early, gayer, large, and layer. For points, the strongest plays are laggy, leggy, and raggy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in greylag produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gray, grey and rage. For points, the strongest plays are eggy and yegg — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling greylag turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and aye. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greylag. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in greylag plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in greylag 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.
greylag 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 greylag. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
greylag is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greylag unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is greylag, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from greylag 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 greylag produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.