guerrilla needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guerrilla is the highest-scoring word from guerrilla, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in guerrilla — and it is guerrilla itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guerrilla produces exactly one eight-letter word: guerilla. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in guerrilla produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regular. For points, the strongest plays are glarier, griller, ligulae, ligular, and regular — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling guerrilla turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with larger and uglier. For points, the strongest plays are arguer, giller, glaire, gluier, grille, larger, ligula, ligule, ligure, reguli, uglier, and ullage — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guerrilla. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue, grill, large, and legal. For points, the strongest plays are agile, argil, argle, argue, auger, glair, glare, glial, gluer, grail, grill, gruel, guile, gular, lager, large, legal, liger, luger, rager, regal, rerig, rugae, rugal, and urger — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in guerrilla produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, glue, liar, lure, rage, rare, and real. For points, the strongest plays are ager, aglu, ague, areg, egal, gale, gall, gaur, gear, gill, girl, glia, glue, grue, guar, gull, iglu, luge, rage, ragi, ruga, and urge — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling guerrilla turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, all, are, ear, era, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are age, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, gie, grr, gul, lag, leg, lug, rag, reg, rig, and rug — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guerrilla. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ag and gi, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in guerrilla plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in guerrilla and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
guerrilla 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 one sense for guerrilla. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
guerrilla is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guerrilla unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is guerrilla, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from guerrilla 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 guerrilla produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.