Hidden inside grips sit grips, prigs, and sprig, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grips, prigs, and sprig tie for the highest Scrabble score from grips at 8 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in grips: two come from rearranging its letters, and grips itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips. For points, the strongest plays are grips, prigs, and sprig — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grips produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, pigs, rigs, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are gips, grip, pigs, and prig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grips turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pig, rig, rip, sip, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are gip and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest play is pi — worth 4 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 grips and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
grips 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 ten senses for grips. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
grips is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grips unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grips, prigs, and sprig, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grips 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 grips produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.