grievances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 651 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grievances is the highest-scoring word from grievances, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 651 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in grievances — and it is grievances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grievances turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grievance and scavenger, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grievances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agencies and increase. For points, the strongest plays are carvings, cravings, and scavenge — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grievances produces 65 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carving, ceasing and erasing. For points, the strongest plays are carving, cavings, and craving — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grievances turns up 137 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, angers and caring. For points, the strongest play is caving — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 178 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grievances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger and cages. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caves and caver.
Rearranging the letters in grievances produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and cage. For points, the strongest plays are cave, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grievances turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grievances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
grievances 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for grievances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
grievances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grievances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is grievances, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from grievances 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 grievances produce 651 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 65 seven-letter words, 137 six-letter words, 178 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.