Hidden inside grosbeak sit brokages and grosbeak, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brokages and grosbeak tie for the highest Scrabble score from grosbeak at 15 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in grosbeak: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grosbeak 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 brokages and grosbeak, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grosbeak produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boskage and brokage, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grosbeak turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brakes and breaks. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including brakes, breaks and bakers.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grosbeak. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bakes, barks and bears. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including bakes, barks and break.
Rearranging the letters in grosbeak produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, bags and bake. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including bake, bark and bask.
Unscrambling grosbeak turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and are. For points, the strongest plays are kab and kob — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grosbeak. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be and go. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in grosbeak plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grosbeak 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.
grosbeak 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 grosbeak. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
grosbeak is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grosbeak unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brokages and grosbeak, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grosbeak 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 grosbeak produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.