guarantees needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 604 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guarantees is the highest-scoring word from guarantees, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 604 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in guarantees — and it is guarantees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guarantees turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guarantee. For points, the strongest plays are guarantee and runagates — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guarantees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sergeant. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including sergeant, estrange and grantees.
Rearranging the letters in guarantees produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, gesture and natures. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including gesture, strange and agnates.
Unscrambling guarantees turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees and angers. For points, 54 words tie at 7 points, including agents, agrees and angers.
There are 175 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guarantees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree and anger. For points, 82 words tie at 6 points, including agent, agree and anger.
Rearranging the letters in guarantees produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and anus. For points, 69 words tie at 5 points, including ages, sung and tags.
Unscrambling guarantees turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, 27 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and gee.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guarantees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
guarantees 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for guarantees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
guarantees is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guarantees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is guarantees, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from guarantees 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 guarantees produce 604 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 175 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.